夏娃

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (夏娃)		夏	娃
simp. ^#(夏娃)		夏	娃

Etymology

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā), via a Southern Chinese dialect.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xiàwá

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄨㄚˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haa⁶ waa¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): Ha-vâ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ha⁵ hua¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Hā-oa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xiàwá
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄨㄚˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Siàwá
  - Wade–Giles: Hsia⁴-wa²
  - Yale: Syà-wá
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiahwa
  - Palladius: Сява (Sjava)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä⁵¹ wä³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)⁺
  - Jyutping: haa⁶ waa¹
  - Yale: hah wā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haa⁶ waa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ha⁶ wa¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haː²² waː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Ha-vâ
  - Hakka Romanization System: ha va^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ha⁴ va¹
  - Sinological IPA: /ha⁵⁵ va²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ha⁵ hua¹ [Phonetic: ha⁵ ua¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: Hā-hua
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ha¹¹ ^(h-)ua⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ha⁵ hua¹ [Phonetic: ha⁵ ua¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ha²¹ ^(h-)ua⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hā-oa
  - Tâi-lô: Hā-ua
  - Phofsit Daibuun: haxoaf
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ha²²⁻²¹ ua⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ha³³⁻¹¹ ua⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ha³³⁻²¹ ua⁴⁴/

Proper noun

夏娃

(Protestantism) Eve (the first woman and mother of the human race)
- 1838, Karl Gützlaff, 古今萬國綱鑑, volume 1, Singapore: 堅夏書院, page 2:
  
  上帝甄陶人，一男一女，男曰亞坍，女曰夏娃，兩者皆性善，如水之下流也。……惜哉人不遵命，夏娃被蛇誘惑，受實授夫，兩人兼食矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  上帝甄陶人，一男一女，男曰亚坍，女曰夏娃，两者皆性善，如水之下流也。……惜哉人不遵命，夏娃被蛇诱惑，受实授夫，两人兼食矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  Shàngdì zhēntáo rén, yī nán yī nǚ, nán yuē Yàtān, nǚ yuē Xiàwá, liǎng zhě jiē xìngshàn, rú shuǐ zhī xià liú yě....... Xī zāi rén bù zūnmìng, Xiàwá bèi shé yòuhuò, shòu shí shòu fū, liǎng rén jiān shí yǐ. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 彼人共伊的某夏娃同房；夏娃就懷孕生該隱，講，我對耶和華庇佑得著囝。 [Hokkien, trad.]
  彼人共伊的某夏娃同房；夏娃就怀孕生该隐，讲，我对耶和华庇佑得着囝。 [Hokkien, simp.]
  From: 巴克禮譯本 (Barclay Amoy Romanized Bible), 創世記 (Genesis) 4:1
  Hit-lâng kā i ê bó͘ Hā-oa tâng-pâng; Hā-oa chiū hoâi-īn siⁿ Kai-ún, kóng, Góa tùi Iâ-hô-hoa pì-iū tit-tio̍h kiáⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
  And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she [Eve] conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

Synonyms

Terms for Eve in different branches of Christianity

Branch	Words edit
Protestant	夏娃
Roman Catholic	厄娃
Eastern Orthodox	埃瓦

(Islam) 哈娃 (Hāwá)
(Yinchuan Mandarin) 哈爾娃／哈尔娃, 好娃