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咽

嚥
yàn
verb HSK 7 #10,219

Meanings

  1. 1 to swallow

Examples

把药咽下去。
Bǎ yào yàn xiàqù.
Swallow the medicine.
他咽了一口口水。
Tā yàn le yì kǒu kǒushuǐ.
He swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Tips

mistakes
咽 has three different pronunciations with different meanings: yàn (to swallow), yān (throat, as in 咽喉), and yè (to choke up with emotion, as in 呜咽). This is one of the trickiest multi-pronunciation characters in Chinese.

Stroke Order

咽 yàn