噎

噎 U+564E, 噎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-564E ← 噍 [U+564D] CJK Unified Ideographs 噏 → [U+564F]

Translingual

Han character

噎 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口土月廿 (RGBT), four-corner 6401₈, composition ⿰口壹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 208, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4307
• Dae Jaweon: page 431, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 681, character 3
• Unihan data for U+564E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		噎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (壹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
曀	*qiːɡs
殪	*qiːɡs
豷	*qiːɡs, *qʰʷriɡs
懿	*qriɡs
饐	*qriɡs
鷧	*qriɡs
撎	*qriɡs
亄	*qriɡs, *qriɡ
噎	*qiːɡ
壹	*qlid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qiːɡ) : semantic 口 + phonetic 壹 (OC *qlid).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yē (ye¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jit³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): eh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yē
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ye
    • Wade–Giles: yeh¹
    • Yale: yē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ie
    • Palladius: е (je)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jit³
    • Yale: yit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: yid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eh
    • Tâi-lô: eh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: eq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /eʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /eʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /eʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /eʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /eʔ³²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 噎
Mandarin	Beijing	/iɛ⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/iɛ⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ie²¹/
	Jinan	/iə²¹³/
	Qingdao	/iə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/iɛ²⁴/
	Xi'an	/iɛ²¹/
	Xining	/i⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ie¹³/
	Lanzhou	/iə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/iɤ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/ie²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ie³¹/
	Guiyang
	Kunming	/iɛ³¹/
	Nanjing	/ieʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/iɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/iəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/iʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/iaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/iɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/iəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ʔiəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/i²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/ieʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ie²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/i²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/et̚⁵/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jit̚⁵/
	Nanning	/jit̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/jit̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/iat̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/iɛʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/i²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ik̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zi³⁵/ 俗 /i⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'et

Rime
Character	噎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	先 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	烏結切
Baxter	'et
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛt̚/
Li Rong	/ʔet̚/
Wang Li	/iet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ye
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jit3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	噎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yē
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔet ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁik/
English	choke
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	噎
Reading #	1/1
No.	14851
Phonetic component	壹
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	噎
Old Chinese	/*qiːɡ/

Definitions

噎

1. to choke

   噎死  ―  yē sǐ  ―  to die from choking

   不小心噎到了  ―  bù xiǎoxīn yē dào le  ―  to accidentally choke

2. to breathe against the wind with difficulty
3. burp; belch
4. (dialectal) to render somebody speechless by saying something blunt or rule
5. (literary) to block; to obstruct

Compounds

• 以噎廢飧／以噎废飧
• 吃飯防噎／吃饭防噎
• 哽噎
• 哽噎難言／哽噎难言
• 嗚噎／呜噎
• 噎人
• 噎嘔／噎呕
• 噎膈
• 噎饑／噎饥
• 因噎廢食／因噎废食 (yīnyēfèishí)
• 打噎 (dǎyē)
• 抽噎 (chōuyē)
• 抽抽噎噎
• 氣噎／气噎
• 臉白氣噎／脸白气噎
• 臨噎掘井／临噎掘井
• 見噎廢食／见噎废食

 

Japanese

Kanji

噎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. choke
2. smother

Readings

• Go-on: えち (echi)
• Kan-on: えつ (etsu)
• Kan’yō-on: いつ (itsu)
• Kun: むせぶ (musebu, 噎ぶ)

Korean

Hanja

噎 • (yeol) (hangeul 열, revised yeol, McCune–Reischauer yŏl)

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Vietnamese

Han character

噎: Hán Nôm readings: ế, nhắc, nhắt, nhốt

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References

• Nom Foundation