Chinese symbol for “throttle”
掐死
qiā sǐ
to throttle; to choke to death
The closest CC-CEDICT match for throttle is 掐死 (qiā sǐ), defined as: to throttle; to choke to death.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “throttle”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 节流阀 (節流閥) | jié liú fá | a throttle |
| 节气门 (節氣門) | jié qì mén | throttle |
| 扼杀 (扼殺) | è shā | to strangle; to throttle |
| 油门 (油門) | yóu mén | accelerator (pedal); gas pedal |
| 勒脖子 | lēi bó zi | to throttle; to strangle |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 掐死.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 掐断 (掐斷) | qiā duàn | to nip off (with fingernails etc); (fig.) to cut off (supply etc) |
| 掐架 | qiā jià | (of dogs, roosters etc) to fight; to tussle; (of people) to have an altercation with sb (physical or verbal) |
| 掐表 (掐錶) | qiā biǎo | to use a stopwatch |
| 掐算 | qiā suàn | to count with one's fingers; on the spot calculation |
| 掐脖子 | qiā bó zi | to seize by the throat |
| 死亡 | sǐ wáng | to die; death |
| 杀死 (殺死) | shā sǐ | to kill |
| 死刑 | sǐ xíng | death penalty; capital punishment |
See also: Japanese symbol for “throttle”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.