噎 - Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口土月廿 (RGBT), four-corner 64018, composition)

噎 - Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Old Chinese
*qiːɡs
*qiːɡs
*qiːɡs, *qʰʷriɡs
*qriɡs
*qriɡs
*qriɡs
*qriɡs
*qriɡs, *qriɡ
*qiːɡ
*qlid

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

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): (ye1)
    • (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): jit3
  • Min Nan (POJ): eh
  • Dialectal data
  • Middle Chinese: /ʔet̚/
  • Old Chinese
    • (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤik/
    • (Zhengzhang): /*qiːɡ/

Definitions

  1. to choke
    •       to die from choking
    • 小心   bù xiǎoxīn dào le   to accidentally choke
  2. to breathe against the wind with difficulty
  3. burp; belch
  4. (dialectal) to render somebody speechless by saying something blunt or rule
  5. (literary) to block; to obstruct

Compounds

  • 哽噎
  • 噎人
  • 噎膈
  • 打噎 (dǎyē)
  • 抽噎 (chōuyē)
  • 抽抽噎噎
  • 以噎廢飧以噎废飧
  • 吃飯防噎吃饭防噎
  • 哽噎難言哽噎难言
  • 嗚噎呜噎
  • 噎嘔噎呕
  • 噎饑噎饥
  • 因噎廢食因噎废食 (yīnyēfèishí)
  • 氣噎气噎
  • 臉白氣噎脸白气噎
  • 臨噎掘井临噎掘井
  • 見噎廢食见噎废食

噎 - Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. choke
  2. smother

Readings

噎 - Korean

Hanja

(yeol) (hangeul , revised yeol, McCuneReischauer yŏl)

噎 - Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: ế, nhắc, nhắt, nhốt

Meaning and Definition of 噎
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