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噎 — Chinese character

噎
yē
to choke; to hiccup

Pinyin
yē
Radical
30 ⼝ (Mouth)
Strokes
15
Components
口 壹
Formation
pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 壹
Japanese
噎 as a kanji

Common words with 噎

WordPinyinMeaning
噎住yē zhùto choke (on); to choke off (in speech)
因噎废食 (因噎廢食)yīn yē fèi shílit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face; to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
抽噎chōu yēto sob
哽噎gěng yēto choke on one's food; to be choked up emotionally, unable to speak
噎死yē sǐ(intransitive) to choke to death
抽抽噎噎chōu chou yē yē(idiom) to sob and sniffle
胸噎xiōng yēthoracic choke (animal harness)

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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