齒

See also: 歯 and 齿
齒 U+9F52, 齒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F52
← 齑
[U+9F51] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 齓 →
[U+9F53]

Translingual

Stroke order
Traditional 齒
Shinjitai 歯
Simplified 齿

Han character

齒 (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

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

Chinese

trad. 齒
simp. 齿
alt. forms
 
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.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • kī - vernacular;
  • chī - literary.
Note:
  • khí - vernacular;
  • chhí - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 齒
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰz̩¹³/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵³/
Xi'an /t͡sʰz̩⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰz̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰz̩⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰz̩⁴²/
Chengdu /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
Guiyang /t͡sʰz̩²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵³/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹²/
Hefei /t͡sʰʐ̩²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
Pingyao /sz̩⁵³/ 平～磨
/t͡sz̩⁵³/ ～輪兒
Hohhot /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sz̩³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷ⁵¹/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰi³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰz̩²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰz̩³¹/
Taoyuan /tʃʰï³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰi³⁵/
Nanning /t͡sʰi³⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰi³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰi⁵³/
/kʰi⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰi³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰi²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xi²¹³/
Rime
Character 齒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰɨX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiəX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chǐ
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 齒
Reading # 1/1
No. 17302
Phonetic
component		 止
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 齒
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰjɯʔ/

Definitions

齒

  1. (anatomy) tooth
    牙齒 / 牙齿  ―  yáchǐ  ―  tooth
  2. (figuratively) tooth- or zigzag-like thing, such as sawtooth, cogwheel, fern, etc.
  3. (figuratively) 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
Classical Chinese 齒
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 牙齒
Mandarin Beijing 牙
Taiwan 牙
Jinan 牙
Xi'an 牙
Wuhan 牙齒、才調子
Chengdu 牙齒
Yangzhou 牙子
Hefei 牙、牙齒
Cantonese Guangzhou 牙
Hong Kong 牙
Taishan 牙
Yangjiang 牙
Gan Nanchang 牙齒
Hakka Meixian 牙齒
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 牙齒
Liudui (S. Sixian) 牙齒
Hsinchu (Hailu) 牙齒
Dongshi (Dabu) 牙齒
Zhuolan (Raoping) 牙齒
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 牙、牙齒
Jin Taiyuan 牙
Min Bei Jian'ou 牙齒
Min Dong Fuzhou 牙
Min Nan Xiamen 喙齒、齒
Quanzhou 喙齒、齒
Zhangzhou 喙齒、齒
Taipei 喙齒、齒
Kaohsiung 喙齒、齒
Philippines (Manila) 喙齒
Chaozhou 齒
Wu Shanghai 牙子、牙齒
Suzhou 牙子
Wenzhou 牙齒、牙
Xiang Changsha 牙齒
Shuangfeng 牙齒

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

 歯

Kyūjitai

 齒

Kanji

齒

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

  1. tooth

Readings

Korean

Hanja

齒 • (chi)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 치 (revised: chi, McCune–Reischauer: ch'i, Yale: chi)
    • Name (hangeul): 이 (revised: i, McCune–Reischauer: i, Yale: i)
  1. tooth

Vietnamese

Han character

齒 (xỉ, xỉa, xẻ)

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