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哽 — Chinese character

哽
gěng
to sob; to choke up

Pinyin
gěng
Radical
30 ⼝ (Mouth)
Strokes
10
Components
口 更
Formation
pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 更
Japanese
哽 as a kanji

Common words with 哽

WordPinyinMeaning
哽咽gěng yèto choke with emotion; to choke with sobs
哽噎gěng yēto choke on one's food; to be choked up emotionally, unable to speak
哽喉gěng hóuvariant of 鲠喉 (gěng hóu)
哽死gěng sǐ(intransitive) to choke to death
悲哽bēi gěngto choke with grief

哽 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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