齒

See also 歯, and 齿

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	歯
simplified	齿
traditional	齒

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a mouth full of teeth. In oracle script only the bottom part (the mouth) was used; 止 was added in on top in bronze script.

			齒
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

齒 (radical 211 齒+0, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜一山人人 (YMUOO), four-corner 2177₂)

1. teeth
2. gears, cogs
3. age (compare 齡)
4. Kangxi radical 211

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/齒

Descendants

• 歯 齿

References

• KangXi: page 1532, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48583
• Dae Jaweon: page 2070, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4788, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9F52

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Cantonese

Hanzi

齒 (simplified 齿, Yale chi2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

齒 (POJ chhí, Guangdong tshe³, tsh'i³ [Meixian], ch'i³ [Hailu, Kwangtung], ts'i³ [Bao'an, Dongguan, Hong Kong], ts'ii³ [Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim ci3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

齒

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: は (ha)

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Korean

Hanja

齒 (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune-Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

齒 (simplified 齿, pinyin chǐ (chi3), Wade-Giles ch'ih³)

Noun

1. tooth

Compounds

• 嚙齒目動物

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Middle Chinese

Han character

齒 (*chiə̌)

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Vietnamese

Han character

齒 (xỉ, xỉa, xẻ)