噎

yē

Meanings

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yē

1.to choke (on)
2.to choke up
3.to suffocate

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Wiktionary

1.to choke
2.to breathe against the wind with difficulty
3.burp; belch
4.to render somebody speechless by saying something blunt or rude
5.to block; to obstruct

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qiːɡ): semantic 口 + phonetic 壹 (OC *qlid).

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Stroke order

Components

噎口壹

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

More examples & usage (AI)

Related words

抽噎 to sob 噎死 (intransitive) to choke to death 噎住 to choke (on)胸噎 thoracic choke (animal harness)哽噎 to choke on one's food 因噎废食 lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face 抽抽噎噎 (idiom) to sob and sniffle