噎
yē

choke

噎 yē
choke verb
to choke on food or have the passage of breath physically obstructed in the throat

他吃得太快，结果被一口馒头噎着了。

tā chī de tài kuài, jié​guǒ bèi yī kǒu mán​tou yē zháo le.

He ate too fast and ended up choking on a bite of steamed bun.

choke up verb
to be unable to speak or breathe freely due to a sudden surge of strong emotion or grief

听到这个不幸的消息，她顿时噎住了，泪如泉涌。

tīng​dào zhè​ge bù​xìng de xiāo​xi, tā dùn​shí yē zhù le, lèi​rú​quán​yǒng.

Hearing the tragic news, she was instantly choked up and tears flowed like a spring.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)