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会厌
huì​yàn

epiglottis

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
会厌 會厭 huì​yàn
epiglottis
the flap of cartilage behind the root of the tongue that covers the windpipe during swallowing to prevent food or liquid from entering

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.484 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)