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哽咽

gěng yè

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

哽咽 (gěng yè) means "to choke with emotion; to choke with sobs". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 哽咽 means

1. to choke with emotion
2. to choke with sobs

The characters in 哽咽

• 哽gěngto choke with emotion; to choke on a piece of food
• 咽yànto swallow

Sounds the same

Read gěng yè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 梗咽variant of 哽咽

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gěng yè correctly.
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