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咽
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

throat

HSK 7
Human →Actions
yàn, yè, yān
イン、エン、エツ
むせ.ぶ、むせ.る、のど、の.む
인, 열
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 因 represents the sound. Simplified form of 嚥.
Components
口 mouth+ 因 cause =
咽 throat
口 Meaning component
kǒu mouth
因 Phonetic component
yīn cause
old variant of 因[yīn]
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Notes
Similar Characters
侃 upright and strong兽 bestial (simp)冋 a desert加 add卟 a chemical compound古 ancient叨 talkative叫 call召 summon叭 trumpet叮 sting可 can叱 bawl叶 be in harmony (simp)号 appellation (jp)叹 admire (simp)叼 hold in the mouth叽 sigh (simp)吁 alas (simp)吃 eat (simp)
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
咽
Regular
Modern
Chinese
咽 [yān]
narrow pass; throat; pharynx
咽 [yàn]
variant of 嚥|咽[yàn]
咽 [yè]
to choke (in crying)
Japanese
喉 、 咽 (rare) 、 吭 (rare) のど 、 のんど (old) 、 のみと (old) 、 のみど (old) 同音

noun

  1. throat
  2. singing voice
  3. printing usually kana gutter (inner margins of a book)
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
今日起きたら喉がいがらっぽかったです。
When I got up today, my throat felt a little sore.
CHINESE WORDS (28)
咽喉 [yān​hóu] #18,119
throat
吞咽 [tūn​yàn] #23,709
to swallow
哽咽 [gěng​yè] #46,545
to choke with emotion
狼吞虎咽 [láng​tūn​hǔ​yàn] #20,901
to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously
呜咽 [wū​yè] #26,243
to sob
呜咽 [wū​yè] #26,243
to sob
咽气 [yàn​qì] #24,955
to die
鼻咽癌 [bí​yān​'ái] #23,646
cancers of the nose and throat
咽炎 [yān​yán] #48,115
pharyngitis
细嚼慢咽 [xì​jiáo​màn​yàn] #36,616
to eat slowly (idiom)
18 more items
JAPANESE WORDS (36)
⭐ 喉 [のど] #1,759
throat
嗚咽 [おえつ] #7,010
sobbing
喉を鳴らす [のどをならす] #9,173
to make a sound with one's throat
咽喉 [いんこう] #24,776
throat
嚥下 [えんげ] #25,355
swallowing
喉から手が出る [のどからてがでる] #26,857
(wanting something so badly that) one can almost taste it
むせ返る [むせかえる] #27,284
to choke
むせび泣く [むせびなく] #35,786
to sob
噎せる [むせる] #45,129
to choke
咽ぶ [むせぶ] #61,581
to be choked
26 more items
KOREAN WORDS (2)
이비인후과 #26,113
otorhinolaryngology; department of otorhinolaryngology
오열
wail; sobbing