choke on something eaten

Pictograph of a person with their open mouth facing backwards.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2)

Iconic (2)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkɯds

說文解字

《說文》:“,食气屰不得息曰。从反欠。●,古文。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica