Chinese Character Wiki
牙

yá

tooth

Depicts top and bottom teeth touching each other.

Evolution

牙 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
牙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
牙 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
牙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

牙  

yá

tooth, molars, teeth; serrated; tooth; ivory; CL:顆|颗[kē]

Most common words with 牙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

牙

tooth

西班牙

Spain

牙齿

tooth

西班牙语

Spanish language

牙医

dentist

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (1 verified)

穿 砑

Sound component in 17 characters (6 verified)

与 與 呀 邪 訝 讶 雅 鴉 鸦 芽 伢 蚜 迓 砑 岈 玡 枒

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

牚

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-ɢˤ<r>a

ngae

yá

tooth


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 38.6353% of movies

868th most common character in movies

997th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+7259

Shuowen

“牙，牡齒也。象上下相錯之形。，古文牙。”


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