tooth / ivory / CL:顆|颗[ke1]

Mnemonic symbol: wisdom tooth. Maud Younger has a wisdom tooth removed just inside the ashram's kitchen.

牙 character breakdown

The character 牙 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 牙 as component

to wear / to put on / to dress / to bore through / to pierce / to perforate / to penetrate / to pass through / to thread

穿 = + : In front of the anthill, Chantal Chicken set up a huge wisdom tooth. She is piercing and drilling a lot of holes into it, which in turns she paints with cave paintings. All of it is part of her current art performance.
ya = y + a5
(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)

= + : Maud Younger (y) has an aching wisdom tooth. She attached a string to it and stands on top of the ashram (a5). At the other end of the string she attached a mandarin (口). When she throws the mandarin down the lighthouse, the string will pull out her aching wisdom tooth. It will hurt a little, so Maud is sure to say "哎呀" when the tooth is pulled.
elegant

= + : Maud Younger's (y) wisdom tooth (牙) hurt a lot, but she found a very elegant (雅) way to get rid of it. In the ashram (a3) she has the sparrow (隹) pull it out for her.
old variant of 邪[xie2]

= + : Marie Curie (xi) meets the Imperator (阝) in the elevator's kitchen (e2) and instantly knows he's possessed by a demon (邪) by how large his fangs (牙) have become.
demonic / iniquitous / nefarious / evil / unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine) / (coll.) strange / abnormal

= + : Marie Curie (xi) meets the Imperator (阝) in the elevator's kitchen (e2) and instantly knows he's possessed by a demon (邪) by how large his fangs (牙) have become.
bud / sprout

= + : Maud Younger (y) put the wisdom tooth (牙) she recently lost on a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) in the ashram's kitchen (a2). The artificial lawn is supposed to act as nurturing substrate, and indeed, the next day the wisdom tooth is already germinating (芽) and developed a new bud (芽).
variant of 鴉|鸦[ya1]
crow
astounded

= + : Maud Younger (y) is astounded (讶) to find that her removed wisdom teeth (牙) are advertised for sale on an advertising column (讠) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
variant of 撐|撑[cheng1]
aphis

Words with 牙

false teeth / dentures
a tooth for a tooth (retaliation)
deciduous tooth / milk tooth / baby tooth
clever and eloquent (idiom); fluent / having the gift of the gab
Buddha's tooth (a holy relic)
palate (roof of the mouth)
Yamanya township in Shule county, Kashgar, Xinjiang
Yamanya township in Shule county, Kashgar, Xinjiang
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine

Sentences with 牙

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