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哽

gěng

Character

What 哽 means

1. to choke with emotion
2. to choke on a piece of food

Words starting with 哽

• 哽咽gěng yèto choke with emotion; to choke with sobs
• 哽死gěng sǐ(intransitive) to choke to death
• 哽噎gěng yēto choke on one's food; to be choked up emotionally, unable to speak
• 哽喉gěng hóuvariant of 鲠喉

Words containing 哽

• 悲哽bēi gěngto choke with grief

Characters built on 更

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

• 梗gěngbranch; stem; stalk
• 埂gěngstrip of high ground; low earth dyke separating fields
• 鲠gěngto choke on a piece of food

Characters that look like 哽

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

• 便biànplain; informal; suitable
• 堂táng(main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the…
• 啸xiào(of people) to whistle; (of birds and animals) to screech; to howl; to roar
• 唠láoused in 唠叨
• 啧zé(interj. of admiration or of disgust); to click one's tongue…
• 唷yō(interjection expressing surprise) Oh!; My!

Sounds the same

Read gěng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 梗branch; stem; stalk
• 颈used in 脖颈
• 耿(literary) bright; brilliant; honest; upright
• 埂strip of high ground; low earth dyke separating fields
• 绠(literary) well rope (for drawing water)
• 鲠to choke on a piece of food
• 郠(place name)