Radical 92

This article is about the radical character 牙. For the radical tooth 齒/齿/歯, see Radical 211. For the radical character 方 (fāng), see Radical 70.
牙
← 91 Radical 92 (U+2F5B) 93 →
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

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.

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

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0 牙
+8 牚

Sinogram

As 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

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "KANJI-Link". www.kanji-link.com. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  3. ^ 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

Look up 牙 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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