Chinese Character 嚥 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

嚥 meaning[3] in English

To Swallow.

Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with RTLF

How to write 嚥

To writeyan4to swallow you should write a combination of kou3mouth , yan4Yan, a … arranged in a shape:

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嚥 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

Pinyin:yan4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Swallow

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:yan4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Yan, A Vassal State Of Zhou In Modern Hebei And Liaoning . North Hebei . The Four Yan Kingdoms Of The Sixteen Kingdoms, Namely: Former Yan 前燕 (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕 (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕 (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕 (409-436) . Surname Yan

廿
Pinyin:nian4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Twenty (20), In A Limited Number Of Set Expressions . Also Written Using Banker'S Character 念

Pinyin:bei3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: North . (Classical) To Be Defeated

Pinyin:pan2
Meaning[3]: 'Piece Of Wood' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 90), Mirror Image Of 片[Pian4]

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Pinyin:?

Pinyin:bi3
Meaning[3]: Dagger . Ladle . Ancient Type Of Spoon

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:biao1
Meaning[3]: 'Fire' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 86), Occurring In 熙, 然, 熊 Etc

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 嚥in English or Chinese