发喉急

發喉急
fāhóují
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to fly into a rage
  2. 2 to lose one's temper

Examples

Tā yī tīng zhè huà jiù fāhóují.
The moment he heard that, he flew into a rage.
Bié wèi zhè diǎn xiǎoshì fāhóují.
Don't lose your temper over such a trivial thing.

Tips

register
Dialectal/colloquial, somewhat dated. Mainstream equivalents are 发火 (fāhuǒ), 发脾气 (fā píqi), or (jíyǎn).
memory
Literally 'send-throat-urgent' — picture the anger rising up the throat ( hóu) until it bursts out. The throat-as-anger imagery survives in English too: 'a lump in the throat', 'choked with rage'.

Stroke Order

hóu