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Written traditionally as 媧, the character combines the semantic radical 女 (nǚ, "woman") with the phonetic component 咼 (guō). It is used almost exclusively as a proper noun for Nüwa (女娲), the Chinese mythological goddess who molded humanity from yellow clay and repaired the heavens after a cosmic catastrophe. The female radical underscores her role as a maternal creator deity and ancient matriarchal symbol. Owing to this tightly restricted mythological usage, 娲 lacks common applications or verb functions, serving solely to name this divine figure in classical and modern narratives.
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