咽气

咽氣

yànqì

verb #24,955

Meanings

HSK 4

他在送往医院的途中咽气了。

Tā zài sòngwǎng yīyuàn de túzhōng yànqì le.

He passed away on the way to the hospital.

HSK 7-9

老人在家人的陪伴下安详地咽气了。

Lǎorén zài jiārén de péibàn xià ānxiáng de yànqì le.

The elderly man peacefully breathed his last surrounded by family.

咽气 is a euphemism for death, more clinical and neutral in tone than 死 (die). It literally describes the physical act of swallowing one's last breath.

咽 yàn

气 qì