Radical 92 or radical fang () meaning "
tooth" or "
fang
A fang is a long, pointed tooth. In mammals, a fang is a modified maxillary tooth, used for biting and tearing flesh. In snakes, it is a specialized tooth that is associated with a venom gland (see snake venom). Spiders also have external fang ...
" is one of the 34
Kangxi radical
The 214 Kangxi radicals (), also known as the Zihui radicals, form a system of radicals () of Chinese characters.
The radicals are numbered in stroke count order. They are the most popular system of radicals for dictionaries that order Traditi ...
s (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
Radical may refer to:
Politics and ideology Politics
*Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change
*Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and ...
.
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
Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as ''zhōng'' bells and '' dǐng'' tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd mi ...
character
File:牙-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:牙-seal.svg, Small seal script
The small seal script (), or Qin script (, ''Qínzhuàn''), is an archaic form of Chinese calligraphy. It was standardized and promulgated as a national standard by the government of Qin Shi Huang, the founder of the Chinese Qin dynasty.
Name ...
character
Derived characters
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram it is a
Jōyō kanji
The is the guide to kanji characters and their readings, announced officially by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Current ''jōyō kanji'' are those on a list of 2,136 characters issued in 2010. It is a slightly modified version of the ''tō ...
, or a
kanji used in writing the
Japanese language. It is a secondary school kanji.
It has design variations officially recognized by the Japanese government.
[The 5 kanji hav]
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
*
List of jōyō kanji
The jōyō kanji system of representing written Japanese currently consists of 2,136 characters.
List of characters
* For brevity, only one English translation is given per kanji.
* The "Grade" column specifies the grade in which the kanji is tau ...
References
Further reading
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External links
Unihan Database - U+7259
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