doll, baby

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

圭 sound component

  Sound component

guī

  

jade pointed at top

Evolution

娃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
娃 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
娃 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
娃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

baby; doll; pretty girl

Most common words with 娃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

娃娃

baby

baby

伊娃

Eva (name)

洋娃娃

doll (of Western appearance)

夏娃

Eve (in Protestant versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, probably via Cantonese 夏娃 {Haa6waa1})

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 11.3247% of movies

1298th most common character in movies

1833rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5A03

Shuowen

“娃,圜深目皃。或曰,吳楚之間謂好曰娃。从女,圭聲。”


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