Radical 92 or radical fang (牙部) meaning "tooth" or "fang" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 4 strokes.
| 牙 | ||
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| 牙 (U+7259) "tooth, fang" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | yá | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄧㄚˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | ya2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | ngàh | |
| Jyutping: | ngaa4 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | gâ | |
| Japanese Kana: | ガ ga / ゲ ge (on'yomi) きば kiba (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 아 a | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 牙/きば kiba | |
| Hangul: | 어금니 eogeumni | |
| Stroke order animation | ||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are nine characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
牙 is also the 69th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
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Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 牙 |
| +8 | 牚 |
Sinogram
editAs an independent sinogram it is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language.[1] It is a secondary school kanji.[2] It has design variations officially recognized by the Japanese government.[3] It is also used in Chinese.
See also
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edit- ^ "Jōyō Kanji Hyō" 常用漢字表 [List of Joyo Kanji] (PDF) (in Japanese). Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
- ^ "KANJI-Link". www.kanji-link.com. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
- ^ The 5 kanji 茨・牙・韓・𠮟;・栃 have specifically designated design variations described in the official Jōyō Kanji list, which apply only to those individual kanji.
Further reading
edit- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
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Look up 牙 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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