Cojak

Hanzi Character Search: 咽

54BD

 
throat; pharynx
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 6 Total Strokes 9
Mandarin reading yān yàn Cantonese reading jin1 jin3 jit3
Japanese on reading in etsu Japanese kun reading nodo
Korean reading in yel Vietnamese reading nhằn
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CEDICT Entries:

   [ yān xiá ]    isthmus of the fauces
   [ yān xiá yán ]    angina, sore throat
   [ yān toú ]    pharynx
   [ yàn ]    to swallow
   [ yàn xià ]    to swallow, to suppress
   [ yàn xià kùn nán ]    dysphagia (medicine)
   [ yàn zhù ]    to suppress (a sob, harsh words etc)
   [ yàn ]    to die, to breathe one's last
⇒    [ tūn yàn ]    to swallow, to gulp
⇒    [ tūn yàn kùn nán ]    dysphagia (medicine)
⇒    [ ]    to sob, to whimper
⇒    [ mén wǎng zi yàn ]    lit. to swallow one's knocked-out teeth after getting punched in the face (idiom), fig. to endure bullying or insults stoically
⇒    [ láng tūn yàn ]    to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously, to gorge oneself
⇒    [ màn yàn ]    to eat slowly (idiom)

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