噎
yē

choke

噎 yē
to choke verb
to choke on food; to have food stuck in one's throat

我差点被羊角面包噎住了。

wǒ chà​diǎn bèi yáng​jiǎo​miàn​bāo yē zhù le.

I almost choked on my croissant.

to be breathless
to have difficulty breathing due to intense emotion or strong wind
to silence someone
to choke someone off with a blunt or harsh remark, making it difficult for them to respond
(bound form) to block
(bound form) to block up or obstruct; to cover or hide from view
to sob
(of a person weeping) to sob or choke with tears
to hiccup
to have hiccups; experience hiccups

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,961st most common 3.09 per million
Movie subtitles
3,112th most common 2.90 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.98 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.04 per million

Details
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+564E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)