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娥
Mandarin · pinyin é
Meanings
- good
- beautiful
Characters in this entry
- 娥
- é · be beautiful; good; surname
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Mandarin tones
2 · e2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 娥. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) good; beautiful
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) beautiful woman
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chinese mythology) short for 娥皇 (Éhuáng, “Ehuang”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chinese mythology) short for 嫦娥 (Cháng'é, “Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) eyebrow
- a surname
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