| 嚥 | |||
| swallow, gulp | |||
| Radical | 口 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 16 | Total Strokes | 19 |
| Mandarin reading | yàn | Cantonese reading | jin1 jin3 jit3 |
| Japanese on reading | en | Japanese kun reading | nomu nodo |
| Korean reading | yen | Vietnamese reading | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 咽 | ||
| Specialized Semantic Variant(s) |
咽 | ||
| 嚥 | [ yàn ] to swallow |
| 嚥下 | [ yàn xià ] to swallow, to suppress |
| 嚥下困難 | [ yàn xià kùn nán ] dysphagia (medicine) |
| 嚥住 | [ yàn zhù ] to suppress (a sob, harsh words etc) |
| 嚥氣 | [ yàn qì ] to die, to breathe one's last |
| ⇒ 吞嚥 | [ tūn yàn ] to swallow, to gulp |
| ⇒ 吞嚥困難 | [ tūn yàn kùn nán ] dysphagia (medicine) |
| ⇒ 打掉門牙，往肚子裡嚥 | [ dǎ mén yá wǎng dù zi lǐ yàn ] lit. to swallow one's knocked-out teeth after getting punched in the face (idiom), fig. to endure bullying or insults stoically |
| ⇒ 狼吞虎嚥 | [ láng tūn hǔ yàn ] to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously, to gorge oneself |
| ⇒ 細嚼慢嚥 | [ xì màn yàn ] to eat slowly (idiom) |