星圖

The 牙 family

牙 · yá · ㄧㄚˊ — tooth

Know 牙 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 呀、雅、訝、鴉. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.

牙 yá · tooth牙呀 ya · sound from 牙 · 79%呀雅 yǎ · sound from 牙 · 79%雅訝 yà · sound from 牙 · 79%訝鴉 yā · sound from 牙 · 79%鴉西班牙 xībānyá · Spain西班牙牙齒 yáchǐ · tooth牙齒葡萄牙 pútáoyá · Portugal葡萄牙刷牙 shuāyá · to brush one's teeth刷牙牙醫 yáyī · dentist牙醫牙刷 yáshuā · toothbrush牙刷西班牙人 xībānyárén · Spaniard西班牙人牙膏 yágāo · toothpaste牙膏假牙 jiǎyá · false teeth假牙咬牙 yǎoyá · to clench one's teeth咬牙爪牙 zhǎoyá · pawn爪牙尖牙 jiānyá · canine tooth尖牙老掉牙 lǎodiàoyá · very old老掉牙

The characters

One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.

The percentage is our computed confidence that 牙 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 牙 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 79%.

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