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瓦

瓦 U+74E6, 瓦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-74E6
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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

 
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Radical 98 瓦

瓦 (radical 98 瓦+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一女弓戈 (MVNI), four-corner 10717)

  1. Kangxi radical #98, ⽡ (“tile”).

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 747, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21438
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1156, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1421, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+74E6

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 瓦
alt. forms 𪜂

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 瓦
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (瓦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瓦 *ŋʷraːlʔ, *ŋʷraːls
邷 *ŋʷraːlʔ

Pictogram (象形) – fired earthenware pottery, or a tile.

Pronunciation 1Edit

Note:
  • nguâ - colloquial (“tile”);
  • nguā - literary (“watt”).
Note:
  • hiā/huā/hiǎ/hǒa - vernacular;
  • góa - literary;
  • óa - literary (Zhangzhou, Taiwan), common variant (Xiamen, Quanzhou).
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 瓦
Mandarin Beijing /ua²¹⁴/
Harbin /ua²¹³/
/ua⁵³/
Tianjin /vɑ¹³/
Jinan /va⁵⁵/
Qingdao /va⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ua⁵³/
Xi'an /ua⁵³/
Xining /ua⁵³/
Yinchuan /va⁵³/ ～房
/va¹³/ ～刀
Lanzhou /va⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /va⁵¹/
Wuhan /ua⁴²/
Chengdu /ua⁵³/
Guiyang /ua⁴²/
Kunming /ua̠⁵³/
Nanjing /uɑ²¹²/
Hefei /ua²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /va⁵³/ 磚～
/va⁴⁵/ 泥～匠
Pingyao /uɑ⁵³/ 名詞
/uɑ³⁵/ 動詞
Hohhot /va⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ŋo²³/
Suzhou /ŋo³¹/
Hangzhou /ʔuɑ⁵³/
Wenzhou /ŋo³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ua³⁵/
/ŋa³⁵/
Tunxi /ŋɔ²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ua⁴¹/
Xiangtan /uɒ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /uɑ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /ŋa³¹/
Taoyuan /ŋɑ³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ŋa²³/
Nanning /ŋa²⁴/
Hong Kong /ŋa¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /gua⁵³/
/hia²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ua³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ua⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ua⁵³/
/hia³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hia³³/
Rime
Character 瓦
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 麻 (99)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 五寡切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠuaX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋʷᵚaX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋuaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋwaɨX/
Li
Rong		 /ŋuaX/
Wang
Li		 /ŋwaX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋwaX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wǎ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瓦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wǎ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngwæX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ŋʷˤra[j]ʔ/
English roof tile

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 瓦
Reading # 1/2
No. 12601
Phonetic
component		 瓦
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 瓦
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋʷraːlʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

瓦

  1. earthenware; earthenware pottery
  2. tile (roof covering)
  3. (historical) back of shield (arching, as if it is covered by tile)
  4. (historical) amusement park; market
  5. (historical, dialectal) protecting plate of wheel
  6. (music) Alternative name for 土 (tǔ, “earth”).
  7. Ancient placename in modern Hua County, Henan.
  8. Short for 瓦特 (Wǎtè, “watt”).
  9. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 瓦

Pronunciation 2Edit

Rime
Character 瓦
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 麻 (99)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 五化切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠuaH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋʷᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋuaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋwaɨH/
Li
Rong		 /ŋuaH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋwaH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋwaH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wà
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 瓦
Reading # 2/2
No. 12603
Phonetic
component		 瓦
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 瓦
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋʷraːls/

DefinitionsEdit

瓦

  1. † to tile; to cover with tiles

CompoundsEdit

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

瓦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

NounEdit

 

瓦 (hiragana かわら, rōmaji kawara)

  1. roof tiles

瓦 (katakana グラム, rōmaji guramu)

  1. (dated) Symbol for gramme

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

瓦 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune-Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

瓦 (ngõa, ngói, ngoa)

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