Radical 92
{{Short description|Simplified Chinese character radical}}
{{About|the radical character 牙|the radical tooth 齒/齿/歯|Radical 211|the radical character 方 (fāng)|Radical 70}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical
|92|uni=7259
|meaning=tooth, fang
|pny= yá
|bopo= ㄧㄚˊ
|wade= ya2
|jyutping= ngaa4
|yale= ngàh
|poj= gâ
|cn=
|onyomi= ガ ga / ゲ ge
|kunyomi= きば kiba
|jp= 牙/きば kiba
|hang= 어금니 eogeumni
|hanja= 아 a
}}
Radical 92 or radical fang ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|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
File:牙-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:牙-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character
File:牙-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|牙}} |
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| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|牚}} |
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram it is a Jōyō kanji, or a kanji used in writing the Japanese language.{{cite web |title=Jōyō Kanji Hyō |script-title=ja:常用漢字表 |trans-title=List of Joyo Kanji |url=https://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf |access-date=November 7, 2018 |publisher=Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan |language=ja}} It is a secondary school kanji.{{Cite web |title=KANJI-Link |url=http://www.kanji-link.com/en/kanji/grade/ |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=www.kanji-link.com |language=en}} It has design variations officially recognized by the Japanese government.The 5 kanji {{lang|ja|茨・牙・韓・𠮟;・栃}} have [https://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf#page=6 specifically designated design variations] described in the official Jōyō Kanji list, which apply only to those individual kanji. It is also used in Chinese.
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
- {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}