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 (2,348 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 is used for balance[9].
  • ear's Commons category is recorded as Ears[10].
  • ear's Unicode character is recorded as 👂[11].
  • ear comprises outer ear[12].
  • ear comprises middle ear[13].
  • ear comprises inner ear[14].
  • ear comprises auricle[15].
  • ear's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ear[16].
  • ear's Commons gallery is recorded as Ear[17].
  • ear's quantity is recorded as {'amount': '+2'}[18].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[19].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[20].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[21].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[24].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[25].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26].
  • ear's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[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 (2,348 views/month).[2] ear has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] ear is known by 43 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

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: 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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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 230
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'ami', 'an', 'ang', 'ann', 'anp', 'ar', 'arc', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||kaj, arz, rw */ import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 7w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C1528
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P10381]]: C1528, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  3. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Booker T. Washington
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q319871, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  4. 13w ago · Tama5240 · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ta98 latin term → auris
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P3982]]: auris"
  5. 13w ago · Buirondd · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use → hearing, balance
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P366]]: [[Q1530280]]"
  6. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ear
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: ear, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289932811|ear (#289932811)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  7. 20w 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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