U+5A32 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+5A32 "" 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.

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

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
kIRG_GSource
G0-6634
kTGH
2013:4691
kKangXi
0263.251
kMainlandTelegraph
1257
kMandarin
kPhonetic
700*
kRSUnicode
38.7
kSMSZD2003Index
157.11
kTGHZ2013
377.070:wā
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
G
kXHC1983
1176.090:wā