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  *堵* | 堵* | *堵
to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls)
HSK 4
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  *呛* | 呛* | *呛
to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)
HSK 7-9
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  *憋* | 憋* | *憋
to choke / to stifle / to restrain / to hold back / to hold in (urine) / to hold (one's breath)
HSK 7-9
to choke / to stifle / to suffocate
HSK 7-9
to choke with emotion / to choke with sobs
to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke
choked with silt / silted up
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  *呛* | 呛* | *呛
to irritate the nose / to choke (of smoke, smell etc) / pungent / (coll.) (Tw) to shout at sb / to scold / to speak out against sb
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  *咽* | 咽* | *咽
to choke (in crying)
to hold one's breath / to feel suffocated (for lack of air) / choked with bottled-up resentment
to throttle / to choke to death
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *淤* | 淤* | *淤
silt / river sludge / to silt up / choked with silt / variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *哽* | 哽* | *哽
to choke with emotion / to choke on a piece of food
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嗈* | 嗈* | *嗈
to choke
to choke (on) / to choke off (in speech)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鲠* | 鲠* | *鲠
to choke on a piece of food
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  *鲠* | 鲠* | *鲠
to choke on a piece of food / (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat
congestion / to block / to congest / to crowd / to choke / to cram / to fill up / to stuff / to take up all the space
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *噎* | 噎* | *噎
to choke (on) / to choke up / to suffocate
lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face / to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *旡* | 旡* | *旡
choke on something eaten
to jam / to choke / to clutch / also pr. [qia3 zhu4]
to choke on (food etc) / to swallow the wrong way
(intransitive) to choke to death
to choke on one's food / to be choked up emotionally, unable to speak
to have a tingling sensation in one's nose (due to grief, pungent odor or taste) / to be choked up
to choke on a piece of food etc
(literary) wailing; choking with sobs
throat sound such as choking, donkey's bray etc
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嗌* | 嗌* | *嗌
(literary) to choke; to have a blockage in the throat / Taiwan pr. [yi4]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嗌* | 嗌* | *嗌
(literary) the throat / (literary) (military) choke point
(intransitive) to choke to death
to choke with grief
choking agent
thoracic choke (animal harness)
lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds / desolate (idiom)
(martial arts) rear naked choke


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