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.

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
← 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

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

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

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

• List of jōyō kanji

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

• 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

• Unihan Database - U+7259