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鲠喉

gěng hóu

2-character word Traditional 鯁喉

What 鲠喉 means

1. to choke on a piece of food etc

The characters in 鲠喉

• 鲠gěngto choke on a piece of food
• 喉hóuthroat; larynx

Sounds the same

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

• 哽喉variant of 鲠喉

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