咽 — Chinese character
咽
yàn
throat; pharynx
- Pinyin
- yàn
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 口 因
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 因
- Japanese
- 咽 as a kanji
Common words with 咽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咽喉 | yān hóu | throat |
| 哽咽 | gěng yè | to choke with emotion; to choke with sobs |
| 呜咽 (嗚咽) | wū yè | to sob; to whimper |
| 咽下 (嚥下) | yàn xià | to swallow |
| 吞咽 (吞嚥) | tūn yàn | to swallow; to gulp |
| 狼吞虎咽 (狼吞虎嚥) | láng tūn hǔ yàn | to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously; to gorge oneself |
| 咽炎 | yān yán | pharyngitis |
| 鼻咽癌 | bí yān ái | nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) |
| 下咽 | xià yān | (anatomy) hypopharynx |
| 下咽 (下嚥) | xià yàn | to swallow (food or drink) |
| 咽气 (嚥氣) | yàn qì | to die; to breathe one's last |
| 鼻咽 | bí yān | nose and throat |
English words written with 咽
咽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
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.