Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 牙

Modern (Beijing) reading: yá

Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋrā

Classic Old Chinese: ŋrā

Western Han Chinese: ŋrā

Eastern Han Chinese: ŋrǟ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋạ̄

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋạ̄

Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋạ̄

Middle Chinese: ŋạ

English meaning : tooth, tusk, (ivory)

Russian meaning[s]: 1) зуб, клык; вцепиться зубами; зубчатый; 2) слоновая кость; 3) посредник, комиссионер; маклер; 4) стар. невысокие военные должности; 5) умный, понятливый; 6) Я (фамилия)

Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is nha. For *ŋ- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou ge², Fuzhou, Jianou ŋa².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 92

Four-angle index: 3251

Karlgren code: 0037 a-b

Vietnamese reading: ngà

Shijing occurrences: 17.3

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