咽 yān
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yān
noun
pharynx; throat; narrow pass
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '咽' yān; Unihan '咽') -
yàn
verb
to swallow
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 吞咽 (Guoyu '咽' yàn v 1) -
yè
verb
to choke; to block
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 阻塞 (Guoyu '咽' yè v) -
yàn
verb
to suddenly stop talking
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '咽' yàn v 2)
Contained in
- 咽气(嚥氣) to die; to breathe one's last
- 咽住(嚥住) to suppress (a sob, harsh words etc)
- 耳鼻咽喉 ear nose and throat; otolaryngology
- 喉咽 laryngopharynx; a key position
- 呜咽(嗚咽) to sob
- 鼻咽 nose and throat
- 吞咽困难(吞嚥困難) dysphagia
- 咽头(咽頭) pharynx
- 狼吞虎咽(狼吞虎嚥) to wolf down one's food; to devour ravenously; to gorge oneself
- 扼襟控咽 to secure a stranglehold; to hold a strategic pass
- 咽峡(咽峽) isthmus of the fauces
- 咽喉 throat ; a critical point
- 咽峡炎(咽峽炎) angina; sore throat
- 抽咽 to sob
- 咽炎 pharyngitis
- 吞咽(吞嚥) to swallow; to gulp
- 咽下(嚥下) to swallow; to suppress
- 前咽 prepharynx
- 咽鼓管 Eustachian tube; auditory tube
- 咽下困难(嚥下困難) dysphagia
- 鼻咽癌 cancers of the nose and throat; nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)
- 哽咽 to choke with sobs
- 细嚼慢咽(細嚼慢嚥) to eat slowly
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《口部》 Kǒu Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 6
- 魯頌‧駉之什‧有駜 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - You Bi The Book of Songs 詩經 — count: 4
- 第二回 Chapter 76 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 4
- 第二回 Chapter 80 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
- 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 96 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 78 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
- 卷四十五 Scroll 45 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷一百四十一 志第九十四 樂十六 Volume 141 Treatises 94: Music 16 History of Song 宋史 — count: 3
Collocations
- 填咽 (填咽) 門巷填咽 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五十六 列傳第十六 謝瞻 孔琳之 Volume 56 Biographies 16: Xie Zhan, Kong Linzhi — count: 20
- 鸣咽 (鳴咽) 便涕泗鳴咽 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷八 列傳第二 昭明太子 哀太子 愍懷太子 Volume 8: Crown Prince Zhaoming; Crown Prince Ai; Crown Prince Minhuai — count: 14
- 感咽 (感咽) 遂廢食感咽 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五十八 列傳第十八 王惠 Volume 58 Biographies 18: Wang Hui, Xie Hongwei, Wang Qiu — count: 14
- 悲咽 (悲咽) 拜表悲咽 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷六十 列傳第二十 范泰 王准之 王韶之 荀伯子 Volume 60 Biographies 20: Fan Tai, Wang Zhunzhi, Xun Bozi — count: 12
- 咽咽 (咽咽) 鼓咽咽 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧有駜 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - You Bi — count: 10
- 咽面 (咽面) 咽面 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷五 本紀第五: 高宗下 Volume 5 Annals 5: Gaozong 2 — count: 8
- 鼓咽 (鼓咽) 鼓咽咽 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧有駜 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - You Bi — count: 6
- 咽不能 (咽不能) 哀咽不能自胜 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷六十一 吳書十六 潘濬陸凱傳 Volume 61: Book of Wu 16 - Biographies of Pan Jun and Lu Kai — count: 5
- 涕咽 (涕咽) 伏枕涕咽 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷31 于栗磾 Volume 31: Yu Lidi — count: 5
- 水咽 (水咽) 渦水咽流 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷三十二 列傳第二十六 陳慶之 蘭欽 Volume 32: Chen Qingzhi; Lan Qin — count: 5