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齒
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齿
🇨🇳
歯
🇯🇵

teeth

HSK 10 N2
Human →Body →Skeleton
chǐ
シ
よわい、は、よわ.い、よわい.する
치
Pictograph of a mouth full of teeth. The sound component 止 was added later.
Components
Traditional (齒)
止 stop+ 𠚕 teeth =
齒 teeth
止 Phonetic component
zhǐ stop
stop, halt, desist
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𠚕 Iconic component
chǐ teeth
Depicts a mouth full of teeth.
Japanese (歯)
止 stop =
歯 teeth
止
止
stop
𱐍
𱐍
Notes
Similar Characters
齿 gears (simp)卸 unload往 toward徒 follower從 follow (trad)歧 fork in the road歨 a step歷 experience (trad)歸 come back (trad)走 walk之 of企 look forward to先 ahead出 exit正 correct此 this (literary)步 footstep武 military歬 go forward歰 unsmooth
Historical Evolution
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Bronze
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
齿
Regular
Modern
Chinese
齿 / 齒 [chǐ]
tooth; CL:顆|颗[kē]
Japanese
歯 、 齒 (old) は 同音

noun

  1. tooth; teeth
  2. tooth (of a comb, saw, etc.); cog
  3. support (of a geta)
歯 し 同音

noun

  1. tooth
  2. age; years
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
その赤ちゃんは歯が生えはじめている。
The baby is cutting his teeth.
CHINESE WORDS (107)
牙齿 [yá​chǐ] #2,527
tooth
齿轮 [chǐ​lún] #13,096
(machine) gear
锯齿 [jù​chǐ] #13,860
sawtooth
咬牙切齿 [yǎo​yá​qiè​chǐ] #31,517
gnashing one's teeth (idiom); displaying extreme anger
难以启齿 [nán​yǐ​qǐ​chǐ] #13,578
to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom)
口齿 [kǒu​chǐ] #18,895
mouth and teeth
龋齿 [qǔ​chǐ] #44,449
tooth decay
不齿 [bù​chǐ] #26,534
to despise
智齿 [zhì​chǐ] #29,765
wisdom tooth
启齿 [qǐ​chǐ] #26,814
to open one's mouth
97 more items
JAPANESE WORDS (200)
⭐ 歯 [は] #2,347
tooth
歯を食いしばる [はをくいしばる] #6,793
to bear up in tragedy
奥歯 [おくば] #8,770
back tooth
⭐ 歯車 [はぐるま] #10,565
gear
⭐ 歯がゆい [はがゆい] #18,088
(feeling) impatient
歯ぎしり [はぎしり] #18,483
involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding
歯噛み [はがみ] #18,702
grinding of the teeth
⭐ 齢 [よわい] #19,345
(one's) age
前歯 [まえば] #21,633
front tooth
歯が立たない [はがたたない] #21,663
unable to compete with
190 more items
KOREAN WORDS (3)
유치
milk tooth
의치
artificial tooth; denture
절치부심
strong desire to take revenge