洼

Pronunciation
Five Elements
FortuneAuspicious
Strokes10 strokes

Basic Info

Pronunciation
Five Elements
Fortune Auspicious
Radical
Simplified Strokes 9 strokes
Traditional Strokes 10 strokes
Traditional Form:
Variant Form:凹,漥

Naming Meaning

Kangxi Dictionary

View Original Page 622
View Original Page 622
Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 洼; Kangxi stroke count: 14 Page 622, Entry 20 Pronounced wa. A river name. The Wowa River is located within the territory of Shazhou, Shaanxi Regional Military Commission. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Book of Music (Yueshu): Once obtained a divine horse in the Wowa River. Also, pronounced wa. Same as wa (depression). Fangyan (Dialect): Wa means a pool or stagnant water. From the passes eastward, some call it wa, others call it si. Also means deep or curved. Zhuangzi, Discourse on Making All Things Equal (Qiwulun): Resembling a depression, resembling a stain. Also, pronounced wei. Meaning is the same. Also, pronounced gui. A surname. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biographies of Confucian Scholars (Rulin Zhuan): Grand Master of Ceremonies Wa Dan. Also, pronounced wai. Also means curved. Textual research: Records of the Grand Historian, Book of Music: Formerly it stated chang, corrected to chang (once) according to the original text.

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