嚥

See also: 咽

嚥 U+56A5, 嚥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56A5 ← 嚤 [U+56A4] CJK Unified Ideographs 嚦 → [U+56A6]

Translingual

Han character

嚥 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+16, 19 strokes, Cangjie input 口廿中火 (RTLF), four-corner 6403₁, composition ⿰口燕)

1. swallow, gulp

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 213, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4545
• Dae Jaweon: page 435, character 44
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 701, character 15
• Unihan data for U+56A5

Chinese

trad.		嚥/咽*
simp.		咽*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
燕	*qeːn, *qeːns
驠	*qeːn, *qeːns
嬿	*qeːnʔ, *qeːns
鷰	*qeːns
醼	*qeːns
讌	*qeːns
嚥	*qeːns
酀	*qeːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qeːns): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 燕 (OC *qeːn, *qeːns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
    • Wade–Giles: yen⁴
    • Yale: yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin³
    • Yale: yin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'enH

Rime
Character	嚥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	於甸切
Baxter	'enH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔenH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔenH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛnH/
Li Rong	/ʔenH/
Wang Li	/ienH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qeːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嚥
Reading #	1/1
No.	14449
Phonetic component	燕
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	宴
Old Chinese	/*qeːns/
Notes	見論衡孟子作咽

Definitions

嚥

1. to swallow

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 嚥 (“to swallow”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		嚥
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	嚥
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	嚥
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	嚥
	Xi'an	嚥
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	吞
	Wuhan	吞
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	嚥
	Hefei	嚥
Cantonese	Guangzhou	吞
	Hong Kong	吞
	Yangjiang	吞
Gan	Nanchang	吞
Hakka	Meixian	吞
Jin	Taiyuan	嚥
Northern Min	Jian'ou	吞
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	吞
Southern Min	Xiamen	吞
	Chaozhou	吞
	Jieyang	吞, 啹
	Leizhou	吞
Wu	Shanghai	嚥
	Suzhou	嚥
	Wenzhou	嚥
Xiang	Changsha	吞
	Shuangfeng	吞

Compounds

• 下嚥 / 下咽 (xiàyàn)
• 乾嚥唾 / 干咽唾
• 吞嚥 / 吞咽 (tūnyàn)
• 咀嚥 / 咀咽
• 唾沫直嚥 / 唾沫直咽
• 嚥下 / 咽下 (yànxià)
• 嚥住 / 咽住
• 嚥唾 / 咽唾
• 嚥嚼 / 咽嚼
• 嚥息 / 咽息
• 嚥日 / 咽日
• 嚥氣 / 咽气 (yànqì)
• 嚥氣症 / 咽气症
• 嚥津 / 咽津
• 嚥漱 / 咽漱
• 嚥苦吐甘 / 咽苦吐甘
• 嚥苦吞甘 / 咽苦吞甘
• 嚼嚥 / 嚼咽
• 漱嚥 / 漱咽
• 狼吞虎嚥 / 狼吞虎咽 (lángtūnhǔyàn)
• 狼飧虎嚥 / 狼飧虎咽
• 狼餐虎嚥 / 狼餐虎咽
• 細嚼慢嚥 / 细嚼慢咽 (xìjiáomànyàn)
• 飲嚥 / 饮咽

Japanese

Kanji

嚥

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. swallow, gulp

Readings

• Go-on: えん (en)
• Kan-on: えん (en)
• Kun: のむ (nomu, 嚥む)、のど (nodo, 嚥)

Korean

Hanja

嚥 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嚥: Hán Nôm readings: yết, en, ẻn

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