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娥

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good; beautiful

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Strokes
10
Radical
女 +7
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
娥
Common rank
#4,222
Unicode
U+5A25

Formation & memory

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How 娥 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

女 meaning “woman” + 我 sound ( wǒ )

Components 女 我

Words with 娥

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WordPinyinMeaning
娥眉 é méi variant of 蛾眉[e2 mei2]
窦娥冤 Dòu É yuān The Injustice to Dou E (popular drama by 關漢卿|关汉卿[Guan1 Han4 qing1])
姮娥 Héng é see 嫦娥[Chang2 e2]
嫦娥 Cháng é Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology); one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar …

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 我 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
我 sound part wǒ I, me, my; our, us
俄 é sudden, abrupt; used in transliterations
鹅 é goose
峨 é lofty; the name of a mountain
蛾 é moth
哦 ò oh? really? is that so?
皒 é white
硪 wò a flat stone used as a mortar
莪 é mugwort, Artemisia
锇 é osmium