哽咽
gěng​yè

choke up

哽咽 gěng​yè
choke up verb
to be overcome with emotion or sobs, causing the voice to break or speech to be interrupted

一想起那段艰难的岁月，她就忍不住哽咽。

yī xiǎng​qǐ nà duàn jiān​nán de suì​yuè, tā jiù rěn bù zhù gěng​yè.

Thinking of those hard years, she couldn't help sobbing.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.150 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.32 per million

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)