咽

See also 咽

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 因 – connected to the mouth, the throat.

Han character

咽 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口田大 (RWK), four-corner 6600₀)

1. throat
2. pharynx

Synonyms

• (throat): 喉

References

• KangXi: page 188, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3577
• Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 616, character 2
• Unihan data for U+54BD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

咽 (Yale yin1, yit3)

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Japanese

Kanji

咽 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: いん (in), えつ (etsu)
• Kun: のど (nodo)

Compounds

• 嗚咽 (おえつ, oetsu)

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Korean

Hanja

咽 (hangeul 인, 열, revised in, yeol, McCune-Reischauer in, yŏl)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

咽 (pinyin yān (yan1), Wade-Giles yen¹)

Compounds

• 狼吞虎咽

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Vietnamese

Han character

咽 (yết, nhằn, ịt, nhiết, yến)