U+7259 "牙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
牙
U+7259 "牙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "tooth," "tusk," or "fang," and is commonly used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In its pictographic origins, it is believed to depict the shape of a grinding tooth or an elephant tusk, and it appears in many compound words related to dentistry, chewing, or ivory. The character also carries extended meanings, such as in the word 象牙 (xiàngyá) meaning "ivory," and is a standard component in written communication throughout the Sinosphere.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7259 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 牙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 牙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x89 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7259 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007259 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7259 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4FA |
| kCCCII | 214A4D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-455B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-455B |
| kCangjie | MVDH |
| kCantonese | ngaa4 |
| kCihaiT | 866.501 |
| kCowles | 2977 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1108.060 |
| kDefinition | tooth, molars, teeth; serrated |
| kEACC | 214A4D |
| kFanqie | 五加 |
| kFenn | 165B |
| kFennIndex | 612.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1024.0 |
| kGB0 | 4932 |
| kGB1 | 4932 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0037a |
| kHangul | 아:0E |
| kHanYu | 21419.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yá(187) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21419.080:yá,yà |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⽛[U+2F5B]:21419.080 |
| kHKGlyph | 2468 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1108.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21419.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0695.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5140 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4FA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3267 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7A6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6433 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-455B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5E59 |
| kJapanese | ガ ゲ きば きばへん は |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:102 |
| kJapaneseKun | KIBA HA |
| kJapaneseOn | GA GE |
| kJis0 | 1871 |
| kKangXi | 0695.030 |
| kKarlgren | 208 |
| kKorean | A |
| kLau | 2299 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3660 |
| kMandarin | yá |
| kMatthews | 7214 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1998 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ016801 MJ016802:E0102 MJ016801:E0103 MJ016803:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 19909 19909:E0103 |
| kNelson | 2848 |
| kPhonetic | 951 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1383+92.5.0 V+7965+92.4.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 92.0 |
| kSBGY | 168.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 410.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yá粵ngaa4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3660 |
| kTang | *nga |
| kTGHZ2013 | 419.100:yá |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nha |
| kXerox | 246:366 |
| kXHC1983 | 1319.050:yá |