咽喉

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Chinese

to swallow; to choke (in crying); narrow pass
to swallow; to choke (in crying); narrow pass; throat
 
throat; larynx
trad. (咽喉)
simp. #(咽喉)
anagram 喉咽
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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 1/1
Initial () (34) (33)
Final () (85) (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV I
Fanqie
Baxter 'en huw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔen/ /ɦəu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔen/ /ɦəu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɛn/ /ɣəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔɛn/ /ɦəw/
Li
Rong
/ʔen/ /ɣu/
Wang
Li
/ien/ /ɣəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔien/ /ɣə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yān hóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jin1 hau4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yān hóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔen › ‹ huw ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔˁi/ /*ˁ(r)o/
English gullet throat

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/3 1/1
No. 15172 5140
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qiːn/ /*ɡoː/

Noun

咽喉

  1. (anatomy) throat (pharynx and larynx)
  2. (figurative) strategically important place; key link
  3. (rail transport) bottleneck

Synonyms

  • (throat):

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (咽喉):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
いん
Grade: S
こう
Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

(いん)(こう) (inkō

  1. throat

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

咽喉 (inhu) (hangeul 인후)

  1. hanja form? of 인후 (throat)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

咽喉

  1. chữ Hán form of yết hầu (pharynx).