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吭

kēng

Character

What 吭 means

1. to utter

Other readings

吭 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• hángthroat

Example sentences

• 除非你有什么值得说的话要说，否则就别吭声。
  Chúfēi nǐ yǒu shénme zhíde shuō dehuà yàoshuō, fǒuzé jiù bié kēngshēng.
  Don't speak unless you have something worth saying.
• 除非你有什幺值得说的话要说，否则就别吭声。
  Don't speak unless you have something worth saying.

Words starting with 吭

• 吭声kēng shēngto utter a word
• 吭哧kēng chito puff and blow; to whimper
• 吭气kēng qìto utter a sound
• 吭吭kēng kēng(onomatopoeia) coughing, grunting etc

Words containing 吭

• 一声不吭yī shēng bù kēngto not say a word
• 引吭高歌yǐn háng gāo gēto sing at the top of one's voice (idiom)

Characters that look like 吭

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 吹chuīto blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast
• 吼hǒuto roar; to howl; to shriek
• 咙lóngused in 喉咙
• 吮shǔnto suck
• 吠fèito bark

Sounds the same

Read kēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 坑pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive
• 铿(onomatopoeia) clang; jingling of metals; to strike
• 牼shank bone of ox
• 硁obstinate
• 硻obstinate
• 誙(arch.) definitely; sure!
• 坈old variant of 坑
• 銵old variant of 铿