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咽气

yàn qì

2-character word Traditional 嚥氣

What 咽气 means

1. to die
2. to breathe one's last

The characters in 咽气

• 咽yànto swallow
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Sounds the same

Read yàn qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 厌弃to spurn; to reject
• 厌气fed up with; loathsome

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