U+5A32 "娲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+5A32 "娲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in written Chinese and other East Asian languages, primarily known as the surname or given name of the goddess Nüwa (女娲), a prominent figure in Chinese mythology credited with creating humanity and repairing the sky. This ideograph belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, and its meaning relates to femininity or divine female figures, though in modern usage it appears almost exclusively in historical or mythological contexts. The character comprises the radical for female (女) on the left, with a phonetic component (呙) on the right, reflecting its composition as a phono-semantic compound. In Unicode, it is encoded for digital text representation, enabling proper display and processing across various systems and languages.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
娲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
娲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE5 0xA8 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x5A32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00005A32 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u5a32 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
277C24 |
| kCangjie |
VROB |
| kCantonese |
wo1 |
| kDefinition |
a goddess, the mythological sister and successor to Fuxi |
| kEACC |
277C24 |
| kFourCornerCode |
4642 |
| kGB0 |
7020 |
| kHanYu |
21052.020 |
| kIICore |
CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
21052.020 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0263.251 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-6634 |
| kTGH |
2013:4691 |
| kKangXi |
0263.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
1257 |
| kMandarin |
wā |
| kPhonetic |
700* |
| kRSUnicode |
38.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
157.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 |
377.070:wā |
| kTotalStrokes |
10 |
| kTraditionalVariant |
"媧" U+5AA7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
G |
| kXHC1983 |
1176.090:wā |