Chinese Character 咽 Meanings and components.

Form

咽

Meaning

咽 meaning[3] in English

Narrow Pass.

Throat.

Pharynx.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 咽 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are mouth (口) , and old variant of … (因)

Its radical[1] is: 口 (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .口kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RWK

How to write 咽

To write咽yan4narrow pass you should write a combination of 口kou3mouth , 因yin1old variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

口 + 因 = 咽

咽 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 咽 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 咽, looks as follow:

咽
Pinyin:yan4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Narrow Pass . Throat . Pharynx
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
因
Pinyin:yin1 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 因[Yin1]
囗
Pinyin:wei2
Meaning[3]: Enclosure
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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