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Watch picture and learn character (32)(Animal Front) Tooth - 牙

The evolution of character (Animal Front) Tooth



From left to right:

Bronze Script, Big Seal Script, Small Seal Script, Clerical Script


Lion front teeth 

Pinyin of character Tooth: Ya1.

Explanation

Bronze Script: The front teeth in view of side. Tiger, Lion, Wolf, Dog, Leopard, etc. all have the big, sharp front teeth, different from molar. Unlike the molar, the upper teeth are not counterpointing match with the lower teeth. 

Big Seal: similar to shell bone script, but there is a touch point of upper tooth with lower tooth. 

Small Seal Script: more touch points, the horizontal line on the bottom becomes a turning curve to make the character symmetric, the typical structure of small seal script.

Clerical Script: most lines are straight, lost pictography.

The character is used for Human tooth too, but it is exchangeable with character 齿(齒)because human front teeth are not like animal front teeth which are interlocking each other.

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Watch picture and learn character (32)(Animal Front) Tooth - 牙

The evolution of character (Animal Front)  Tooth From left to right: Bronze Script, Big Seal Script, Small Seal Script, Clerical Script Lion...