ear

organ that detects sound; organ of hearing and balance
AnatomicalStructure class_of_anatomical_entity Q7362
ear
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ear

Summary

ear is a class of anatomical entity[1]. ear ranks in the top 6% of class_of_anatomical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,647 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • ear's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[3].
  • ear is a type of subdivision of auriculotemporal part of head[4].
  • ear is a type of particular anatomical entity[5].
  • ear is a type of organ of hearing[6].
  • ear is part of head[7].
  • ear is used for hearing[8].
  • ear's Commons category is recorded as Ears[9].
  • ear's Unicode character is recorded as 👂[10].
  • ear comprises outer ear[11].
  • ear comprises middle ear[12].
  • ear comprises inner ear[13].
  • ear comprises auricle[14].
  • ear's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ear[15].
  • ear's Commons gallery is recorded as Ear[16].
  • ear's quantity is recorded as {'amount': '+2'}[17].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[18].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[19].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[23].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[24].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[25].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[26].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for ear include adhan[28], a term[29] and orecchiette[30], a type of pasta[31].

Why It Matters

ear ranks in the top 6% of class_of_anatomical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,647 views/month).[2] ear has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] ear is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for ear include adhan[28], a term[29] and orecchiette[30], a type of pasta[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by audiology
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, WikiProject Hearing Health
    Subclass of subdivision of auriculotemporal part of head, particular anatomical entity, organ of hearing
    Instance of class of anatomical entity
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 9422, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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