yàn, yān, yè
throat
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 因 represents the sound. Simplified form of 嚥.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 咽
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
throat | ||
throat | ||
to swallow | ||
to swallow | ||
to choke with emotion |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤi[n] | 'en | yān | gullet |
*ʔˤi[n]-s | 'enH | yàn | swallow (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.2608% of movies
2584th most common character in movies
2031st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+54BD |
Shuowen | “咽，嗌也。从口，因聲。” |
Sources
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