齒

See also: 歯 and 齿

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	齒
Shinjitai	歯
Simplified	齿

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #211, ⿒.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/齒
• 𢎕, 𤪷, 𤼻, 𦢠, 𨰒, 𩖁, 𩪲

Descendants

• 歯 齿

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		齒
simp.		齿
alternative forms		歯 𠔒 𠚒 𠚕 𡽔 歯 𠔒 𠚒 𠚕 𡽔 𣥫 𣦗 𦥒 𦦂 𣦋

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 齒
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (止) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
祉	*kʰlɯʔ
址	*kjɯʔ
止	*kjɯʔ
趾	*kjɯʔ
芷	*kjɯʔ
沚	*kjɯʔ
阯	*kjɯʔ
齒	*kʰjɯʔ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a mouth full of teeth. 之 (zhī) or 止 (zhǐ) was later added on top as a phonetic component.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 齒

1. (anatomy) tooth

   牙齒／牙齿  ―  yáchǐ  ―  tooth

2. (figurative) tooth- or zigzag-like thing, such as sawtooth, cogwheel, fern, etc.
3. (figurative) age (of a person or animal)
4. to juxtapose; to put side by side
5. to utter; to mention
6. to employ; to take in
7. to touch; to be in contact with

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 牙齒 (“tooth”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		齒
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		牙齒
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	牙
	Taiwan	牙
	Harbin	牙
	Singapore	牙齒
	Olginsky (Mikhaylovka)	牙
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	牙
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	牙
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	牙
	Wanrong	牙
	Xi'an	牙
	Xining	牙
	Xuzhou	牙
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	牙
	Ürümqi	牙
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	牙齒
	Chongqing	牙齒, 牙巴
	Wuhan	牙齒, 才調子
	Guiyang	牙齒
	Guilin	牙齒
	Liuzhou	牙齒
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	牙子
	Xinghua	牙齒
	Hefei	牙, 牙齒
Cantonese	Guangzhou	牙
	Hong Kong	牙
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	牙
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	牙
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	牙
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	牙
	Macau	牙
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	牙
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	牙
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	牙
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	牙
	Foshan	牙
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	牙
	Foshan (Shunde)	牙
	Foshan (Sanshui)	牙
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	牙
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	牙
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	牙
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	牙
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	牙
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	牙
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	牙
	Taishan	牙
	Kaiping (Chikan)	牙
	Enping (Niujiang)	牙
	Heshan (Yayao)	牙
	Dongguan	牙
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	牙
	Qingyuan	牙
	Fogang	牙
	Yingde (Hanguang)	牙
	Yangshan	牙
	Lianshan (Butian)	牙齒
	Lianzhou (Qingshui Sihui)	牙齒
	Shaoguan	牙, 牙齒
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	牙
	Renhua	牙齒
	Lechang	牙, 牙齒
	Zhaoqing (Gaoyao)	牙
	Sihui	牙
	Guangning	牙
	Deqing	牙
	Huaiji	牙
	Fengkai (Nanfeng)	牙
	Yunfu	牙
	Xinxing	牙
	Luoding	牙
	Yunan (Pingtai)	牙
	Yangjiang	牙
	Xinyi	牙齒
	Maoming (Xinpo)	牙
	Lianjiang	牙
	Nanning	牙齒, 牙
	Wuzhou	牙齒, 牙
	Yulin	牙齒, 牙
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	牙齒
	Guiping	牙齒
	Mengshan (Xihe)	牙齒
	Guigang (Nanjiang)	牙齒
	Beiliu (Tangliao)	牙齒
	Baise	牙齒
	Bobai	牙齒
	Lingshan	牙齒
	Pubei	牙齒
Qinzhou	牙齒
Beihai	牙齒
Ningming	牙齒
Hengzhou	牙齒
Hezhou (Pumen, Babu)	牙齒
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	牙
Singapore (Guangfu)	牙
Gan	Nanchang	牙齒
	Pingxiang	牙齒
Hakka	Meixian	牙齒
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	牙
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	牙
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	牙齒
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	牙
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	牙齒
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	牙齒
	Yudu	牙齒
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	牙齒
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	牙齒
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	牙齒
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	牙齒
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	牙齒
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	牙, 牙齒
	Hong Kong	牙
	Senai (Huiyang)	牙
	Singapore (Dabu)	牙齒
Huizhou	Jixi	牙齒
Jin	Taiyuan	牙
	Xinzhou	牙
Northern Min	Jian'ou	牙齒
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	牙
	Fuzhou (Changle)	牙
	Fuqing	喙齒
	Yongtai	牙齒
	Gutian	喙齒
	Fu'an	喙齒
	Ningde	喙齒
	Shouning	喙齒
	Zhouning	喙齒
	Fuding	牙齒
Southern Min	Xiamen	喙齒, 齒
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	喙齒
	Quanzhou	喙齒, 齒
	Jinjiang	喙齒
	Hui'an	喙齒
	Anxi	喙齒
	Dehua	喙齒
	Zhangzhou	喙齒, 齒
	Zhao'an	喙齒
	Kaohsiung	喙齒, 齒
	Yilan	喙齒
	Changhua (Lukang)	喙齒
	Taichung	牙齒
	Taichung (Wuqi)	喙齒
	Tainan	喙齒
	Taitung	喙齒
	Hsinchu	喙齒
	Penghu (Magong)	喙齒
	Penang (Hokkien)	喙齒, 牙
	Singapore (Hokkien)	喙齒, 齒
	Manila (Hokkien)	喙齒
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	牙齒
	Chaozhou	齒
	Shantou	齒
	Shantou (Chenghai)	齒
	Jieyang	齒
	Haifeng	牙
	Bangkok (Teochew)	齒
	Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew)	牙
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	齒
	Singapore (Teochew)	齒
	Pontianak (Teochew)	牙
	Leizhou	牙
	Wenchang	牙
	Haikou	齒
	Singapore (Hainanese)	牙, 喙齒
Puxian Min	Putian	齒
	Xianyou	喙齒
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	牙
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	牙齒
Shehua	Fu'an	牙
	Fuding	牙
	Luoyuan	牙
	Sanming	牙
	Shunchang	牙
	Hua'an	牙
Waxiang	Guzhang (Gaofeng)	牙齒
Wu	Shanghai	牙子, 牙齒
	Shanghai (Chongming)	牙齒
	Suzhou	牙子
	Wenzhou	牙齒, 牙
	Jinhua	牙齒
Xiang	Changsha	牙齒
	Loudi	牙齒
	Shuangfeng	牙齒

Compounds

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Japanese

Shinjitai	歯
Kyūjitai	齒

Kanji

齒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 歯)

1. tooth

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: は (ha, 齒)

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 齒 (MC tsyhiX). Recorded as Middle Korean 치〯 (chǐ) (Yale: chi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

齒 (eumhun 이 치 (i chi))

1. Hanja form^? of 치 (“tooth”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 치과 (齒科, chigwa)
• 치수 (齒髓, chisu)
• 치아 (齒牙, chia)
• 치약 (齒藥, chiyak)
• 치통 (齒痛, chitong)
• 견치 (犬齒, gyeonchi)
• 구치 (臼齒, guchi)
• 문치 (門齒, munchi)
• 충치 (蟲齒, chungchi)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

齒: Hán Việt readings: xỉ (昌(xương)止(chỉ)切(thiết))
齒: Nôm readings: xỉ, xỉa, xẻ

1. chữ Hán form of xỉ (“teeth”).