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咽

throat
Stroke count: 9

Readings

On readingイン、エン、エツ
Kun readingむせ.ぶ、むせ.る、のど、の.む

Meanings

  1. throat
  2. choked
  3. smothered
  4. stuffy
  5. windpipeRtK
  1. singing voice
  2. gutter (inner margins of a book)

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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mouth (口) · cause · pent in (囗) · large (大) · St. Bernard (犬)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 628

Compound words

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

どうも咽せぽくて実に弱った
どうものんどせぽくてじつによわったI kept choking somehow and was really in a bad way.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

9 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 咽

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step