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
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 噎住 | yē zhù | to choke (on); to choke off (in speech) |
| 因噎废食 (因噎廢食) | yīn yē fèi shí | lit. 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 yē | to sob |
| 哽噎 | gěng yē | to 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 yē | thoracic 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.