Memory phrase for the character: 咽

咽

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Meaning narrow pass, throat, pharynx, to swallow

Pronunciation

yān, yàn, yè

Explanation

Left: mouth 口 (here: entrance, inlet), right: reason, cause 因 (For the fence 囗 around the tall person 大 is a reason.)

Mnemonic
 
The inlet defines (= is the reason for) a narrow pass such as: the throat.

Radicals

口 mouth, openingThis is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.
因 reason, cause
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 Vocabulary

鼻咽癌 bí yān ái  cancers of the nose and throat; Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma NPC (medical)
咽喉 yān hóu  throat
哽咽 gěng yè  to choke with sobs
哽咽 gěng yè  

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