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鲠

gěng

Character Traditional 骾

What 鲠 means

1. to choke on a piece of food

Other readings

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

• gěngto choke on a piece of food; a fish bone lodged in one's throat

Words starting with 鲠

• 鲠喉gěng hóuto choke on a piece of food etc
• 鲠直gěng zhívariant of 耿直

Words containing 鲠

• 骨鲠gǔ gěngfish bone; bone stuck in the throat; sth one feels obliged to speak out about
• 如鲠在喉rú gěng zài hóulit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom)…
• 骨鲠之臣gǔ gěng zhī chénlit. fish bone of a minister (idiom); fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism
• 骨鲠在喉gǔ gěng zài hóufish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. to feel obliged to speak out candidly…

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
• 哽gěngto choke with emotion; to choke on a piece of food
• 埂gěngstrip of high ground; low earth dyke separating fields

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
• 哽to choke with emotion; to choke on a piece of food
• 埂strip of high ground; low earth dyke separating fields
• 绠(literary) well rope (for drawing water)
• 郠(place name)