Legend says the goddess Nüwa melted five-colored stones to mend the sky.
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history
娲 has no independent use; it appears only in the name 女娲, the goddess who created humanity from clay and patched the broken sky. It pairs the woman radical 女 with 呙 for the sound, the same phonetic seen in 锅 and 涡.
culture
女娲 is one of the oldest figures in Chinese myth — the creator-mother who mends heaven, paired with 伏羲 in many legends.
