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Radical 211

traditional Chinese radical tooth (U+2FD2)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ296057 ↗
Source-derived summary

Radical 211 meaning "teeth" (齒部) is the only one of the 214 Kangxi radicals that is composed of 15 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are only 21 characters (out of 40 000) to be found under this radical.

Evolution

Characters with Radical 211

Literature

Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.

Leyi Li: "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases". Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

External links

Unihan Database – U+9F52

齒 radical - Chinese Text Project Ancient forms of the character and list of Unicode characters with the radical.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Radical 211” as traditional Chinese radical tooth (U+2FD2). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Radical, traditional and Chinese can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as traditional Chinese radical tooth (U+2FD2). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q296057. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 1993.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Radical 211” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.