gěng yē

哽噎 (gěng yē) is a Chinese word meaning “to choke on one's food; to be choked up emotionally, unable to speak”.

Meanings

  1. 1to choke on one's food
  2. 2to be choked up emotionally, unable to speak

Characters in 哽噎

哽gěng · to choke with emotion噎yē · to choke (on)

Related words

噎to choke (on)噎住to choke (on)哽咽to choke with emotion哽to choke with emotion因噎废食lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face抽噎to sob哽死(intransitive) to choke to death悲哽to choke with grief哽喉variant of 鯁喉|鲠喉[geng3 hou2]噎死(intransitive) to choke to death抽抽噎噎(idiom) to sob and sniffle胸噎thoracic choke (animal harness)

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