哽 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

gěng

choke (with grief)

哽 gěng

to choke on food verb: To have food stuck in the throat or to be unable to swallow; 医生取出哽在她喉中的鱼骨头。

yīshēng qǔ chū gěng zài tā hóu zhōng de yú gūtou.

The doctor dislodged the fish bone from her throat.

to choke with emotion: To have the throat tighten or the voice catch due to strong feelings

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哽咽 gěngyè

Frequency

Character

Written text: 3,694th most common 4.16 per million
Movie subtitles: 4,546th most common 0.190 per million appears in 0% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text: 0.512 per million

Details

Strokes: 10
Unicode: U+54FD

Sources

Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)