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咽

咽

咽 U+54BD, 咽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54BD
← 咼
[U+54BC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 咾 →
[U+54BE]
See also: 嚥

Translingual

Han character

咽 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口田大 (RWK), four-corner 66000, composition ⿰口因)

  1. throat
  2. pharynx

Synonyms

  • (throat): 喉

References

  • KangXi: page 188, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3577
  • Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 616, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+54BD

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 咽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (因) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
欭 *qrils
烟 *qiːn, *qin
胭 *qiːn
咽 *qiːn, *qiːns, *qiːd
恩 *qɯːn
煾 *qɯːn
因 *qin
姻 *qin
茵 *qin
鞇 *qin
氤 *qin
洇 *qin
駰 *qin, *qrin
絪 *qin
裀 *qin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qiːn, *qiːns, *qiːd) : semantic 口 ‎(“mouth”) + phonetic 因 ‎(OC *qin) – connected to the mouth, the throat.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 咽 咽 咽
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 先 (85) 屑 (87)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) IV IV IV
Fanqie 烏前切 於甸切 烏結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔen/ /ʔenH/ /ʔet̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔen/ /ʔenH/ /ʔet̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔɛn/ /ʔɛnH/ /ʔɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔɛn/ /ʔɛnH/ /ʔɛt̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔen/ /ʔenH/ /ʔet̚/
Wang
Li		 /ien/ /ienH/ /iet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔien/ /ʔienH/ /ʔiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yān yàn ye
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 咽 咽
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yān yàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔen › ‹ ʔenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔˤi[n]/ /*ʔˤi[n]-s/
English gullet swallow (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 咽 咽 咽
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 15172 15173 15187
Phonetic
component		 因 因 因
Rime
group		 眞 眞 質
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 煙 宴 噎
Old
Chinese		 /*qiːn/ /*qiːns/ /*qiːd/
Notes 同嚥

Definitions

咽

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

咽

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

咽 • ‎(in, yeol) (hangeul 인, 열, revised in, yeol, McCune-Reischauer in, yŏl)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咽 (yết, nhằn, ịt, nhiết, yến)

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