牙
yá HSK4

tooth

牙 yá
tooth noun
tooth; teeth

他掉了一颗牙。

tā diào le yī kē yá.

He lost a tooth.

ivory noun
(bound form) ivory; objects made of ivory
tooth-shaped object noun
(bound form) something shaped like a tooth, such as a cog or gear tooth
broker
(bound form) a middleman or agent who facilitates trades for a commission
government office
(literary) an old variant used for 衙 yá, referring to a government office or yamen
to bite
(literary) to bite or gnaw
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Classifier

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
997th most common 162.6 per million
Movie subtitles
868th most common 135.9 per million appears in 39% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
36.4 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
42.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+7259

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)