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toothbrush

oral hygiene instrument used to clean the teeth, gums, and tongue
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toothbrush
Jonas Bergsten · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

toothbrush ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,478 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: brush[2], tooth cleaning instrument[3]
  • Has use: tooth brushing[4]
  • Commons category: Toothbrushes[5]
  • Unicode character: 🪥[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Toothbrushes[7]
  • Commons gallery: Toothbrush[8]
  • Described by source: The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[9]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C73512[10]
  • MCN code: 9603.21.00[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.wordlift.io/wl01714/entity/toothbrushes[13]

Why It Matters

toothbrush has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] toothbrush is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Colgate-Palmolive Company Oral-B

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . fr.dentist. fr.dentist. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . 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. 10w ago · WikiLucas00 · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → De-Zahnbürste.ogg
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Pronunciation audio: LL-Q8097 (tel)-ప్రశాంతి-టూత్ బ్రష్.wav"
  2. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Toothbrush
    Harper's tag → toothbrushes
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Toothbrush, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 20783, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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