The Japanese Radical: 牙

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Meaning
tusk of an elephant    牙

Explanation Radical: kiba

Used in these Kanji:
芽
JLPT 3Joyo 4
 bud, seedling, sprout
me, GA
 艹 牙
Top: plant 艹, bottom: tusk 牙 (pictograph)
Plants and also tusks grow from a sprout.
雅
JLPT 1Joyo 7
 gracious, elegance, grateful
GA
 牙 隹
Left: tusk 牙, right: bird 隹
A tusk at a bird would look gracious.
慨
JLPT 1Joyo 7
 deplore, lament, grieve, be sad, sigh
GAI
 忄 既 艮 牙
Left: feeling 忄, right: already, before 既 (It's 'not good' 艮 that the tusk 牙 is so crooked, but it's already happened that way.)
(He has a toothache:) The feelings at a not-good tusk 牙 are deploring.
概
JLPT 1Joyo 7
 generally, mostly, roughly, outline
ōmune, GAI
 木 既 艮 牙
Left: tree 木, right: already, before 既 (It's 'not good' 艮 that the tusk 牙 is so crooked, but it's already happened that way.)
A tree is not-good as a modified tusk 牙: generally.
既
JLPT 1Joyo 7
 already, previously, before
sude, KI
 既 艮 牙
Left: not good 艮 ('good' would be 良, but here the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good'), right: variation of tusk 牙 (The short lower stroke is towards the right.)
(Talk at the dentist?) It's not good that the tusk is so crooked, but it already happened that way.
邪
JLPT 1Joyo 7
 wicked, evil, unjust
JA
 牙 ⻏
Left: tusk 牙, right: village ⻏
(Invasion of elephants?) A tusk in a village is wicked/evil.
牙
JLPT -Joyo 7
 tusk (i.e. of an elephant), fang
kiba, GA, (GE)
 牙

Side view of an elephant's 象 head with a tusk ノ.

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