yá
tooth
Depicts top and bottom teeth touching each other.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
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。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.139-140
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