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咙

lóng

HSK 6 Character Traditional 嚨

What 咙 means

1. used in {喉咙|hóu lóng}

Example sentences

• 我喉咙痛。
  I have a sore throat.
• 我喉咙很干。
  My throat feels dry.
• 汤姆喉咙疼。
  Tom's got a sore throat.
• 他清了清喉咙。
  He cleared his throat.
• 你发烧和喉咙痛吗?
  Do you have a fever and a sore throat?
• 医生检查了我的喉咙。
  Yīshēng jiǎnchá le wǒ de hóulóng.
  The doctor examined my throat.

Words containing 咙

• 喉咙hóu lóngthe throat

Characters built on 龙

These share the phonetic component 龙 (lóng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 宠chǒngto love; to pamper; to spoil
• 笼lóngenclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
• 垄lǒngridge between fields; crop row; mounded soil forming a ridge in a field; grave mound
• 聋lóngdeaf
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 胧lóngused in 朦胧
• 龚Gōngsurname Gong
• 珑lóngtinkling of gem-pendants

Characters that look like 咙

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

• 呃è(exclamation); to hiccup
• 哇wāWow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting
• 咪mīsound for calling a cat
• 吮shǔnto suck
• 咏yǒngto sing
• 哝nóng(bound form) to mutter; to mumble

Sounds the same

Read lóng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 龙Chinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon
• 隆grand; intense; prosperous
• 笼enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
• 聋deaf
• 泷rapids; waterfall; torrential (rain)
• 胧used in 朦胧
• 珑tinkling of gem-pendants
• 窿cavity; hole
• 茏Polygonum posumbu
• 砻(dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill)…
• 眬used in 蒙眬
• 巃steep; precipitous (of mountain)