Radical 92

牙
91 ⽚ ◄	92	► ⽜ 93
Pinyin :	yá (= tooth)
Zhuyin :	一 ㄚ
Hiragana :	き ば kiba
Kanji :	牙 kiba (= canine tooth)
Hangul :	어금니
Sinocorean :	아 a (= canine tooth)
Codepoint :	U + 7259
Stroke sequence :

Radical 92 , meaning “ tooth ”, is one of 34 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with four strokes. With only 2 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "tooth" will only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 92nd position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 99th position.

The seal form shows two clenched teeth.

Most of the time, Laut occurs as a sound carrier in compound characters, as in 鸦 (ya = raven bird), 芽 (ya = scion), 伢 (ya = jack), 蚜 (ya = aphid), 讶 (ya = be amazed), 呀 (ya = Exclamation of astonishment like Oh!). It is unclear whether it in 邪 (= heretical) indicates the clenched teeth of the fanatics.

The characters listed under 牙 in older reference works are mostly very uncommon today. In the Cihai there are only three other than 牙 itself, namely: 邪 (ya = false doctrine), 鸦 (ya = raven bird) and 雅 (ya = neat). Other dictionaries sort these characters under their other components 阝 (= right ear), 鸟 (niao = bird) and 隹 (zhui = short-tailed bird) and no longer list 牙 as a radical.

Character combinations ruled by radical 92

Fang

Strokes	character
+ 00	牙
+ 08	牚

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 92 is coded under the code point number 12.123 (U + 2F5B).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 171 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 92  - Graphic representations of Radikal 92

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 92 on page 62