娃 (wá): baby, doll
娃 (wá) is a Chinese character meaning “baby.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 女 (structural) and 圭 (structural). It ranks #1816 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 娃 a girl 女 made of beautiful jade 圭. Its radical form 女 (woman) appears in many related characters such as 女 (nǚ, woman), 奶 (nǎi, grandmother, milk), 她 (tā, she).
Definitions
- baby
- doll
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA girl 女 made of beautiful jade 圭
Decomposition: ⿰女圭 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 娃
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伊娃 | yī wá | Eva (name) |
| 洋娃娃noun | yáng wá wa | doll (of Western appearance) |
| 夏娃proper-noun | xià wá | Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Protestant versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, probably via Canto... |
| 女娃noun | nǚ wá | (dialect) girl |
| 娃儿noun | wá ér | children (colloquial) |
| 福娃proper-noun | fú wá | Fuwa (official 2008 Olympic mascots) |
| 外来娃 | wài lái wá | children born to parents from rural areas who have migrated to urban areas |
| 克里斯蒂娃 | kè lǐ sī dì wá | Julia Kristeva (1941-), Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, philosopher and literary critic |
| 库尔尼科娃 | kù ěr ní kē wá | Anna Sergeevna Kournikova (1981-), Russian tennis star and glamor model |
| 伊娃·门德斯 | yī wá · mén dé sī | Eva Mendes, American actress |
| 娃子noun | wá zi | baby |
| 小娃 | xiǎo wá | child |
| 李娃传 | lǐ wá zhuàn | Tale of Courtesan Li Wa, novel by Tang writer Bai Xingjian 白行簡|白行简 along the lines of La Traviata, ... |
| 莎拉波娃 | shā lā bō wá | Sharapova (Russian female tennis star) |
| 带娃verb | dài wá | to look after a baby |
娃 appears in 47 compound words: 26 as the first character, 45 as the last, and 30 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 娃 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
她是一位坚强的娃性，独自抚养两个孩子。
tā shì yī wèi jiān qiáng de wá xìng , dú zì fǔ yǎng liǎng gě hái zǐ .
She is a strong-willed woman raising two children on her own.
...美混血好手费柴德抵台 中职送上吉祥物欧告娃娃
. . . měi hùn xiě hǎo shǒu fèi chái dé dǐ tái zhōng zhí sòng shàng jí xiáng wù ōu gào wá wá
... American mixed-race player Fei Chaide arrived in Taiwan and sent the mascot Ou Gao doll
广角镜/新北玻璃娃娃小雪 街头开唱 歌声动人
guǎng jiǎo jìng xīn běi bō lí wá wá xiǎo xuě jiē tóu kāi chàng gē shēng dòng rén
Wide-angle lens/New Taipei glass doll Xiaoxue sings on the street and sings movingly
卧底娇娃|陈滢“黄金32C”画面爆回响 与李海铜...
wò de jiāo wá chén 滢 huáng jīn 3 2 C huà miàn bào huí xiǎng yǔ lǐ hǎi tóng . . .
Undercover Jiao Wa|Chen Ying's "Golden 32C" picture reverberated with Li Haitong...
卡尔梅科娃体操世界杯德国站勇夺双金
kǎ ěr méi kē wá tǐ cāo shì jiè bēi dé guó zhàn yǒng duó shuāng jīn
Kalmykova won double gold at the Gymnastics World Cup in Germany
童言无忌威力强!萌娃拜年脱口“祝爷爷奶奶早生贵子” 全网笑翻
tóng yán wú jì wēi lì qiáng ! méng wá bài nián tuō kǒu zhù yé yé nǎi nǎi zǎo shēng guì zǐ quán wǎng xiào fān
Fairy tales are powerful! The cute baby blurted out "I wish my grandparents a good son soon" The whole network laughed
这个娃娃是你自己做的吗？
Zhège wáwa shì nǐ zìjǐ zuò de ma?
Did you make this doll by yourself?
她给了我一个漂亮的洋娃娃。
Tā gěi le wǒ yī gè piàoliang de yángwáwa.
She gave me a pretty doll.
我收集各国的娃娃。
Wǒ shōují gèguó de wáwa.
I collect dolls from different countries.
我想买这个玩具娃娃。
Wǒ xiǎng mǎi zhège wánjù wáwa.
I want to buy this toy doll.
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