哽 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「口」
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- On
- コウ
- Kun
- むせ.ぶ
- Meaning
- to choke with sobs
Origin
Mouth 口 with 更 as phonetic: the throat closing so the voice will not come.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 哽咽こうえつ
choking with sobs
- 咽ぶむせぶ
to sob; to choke
Example
別れの場で哽咽して言葉が出なかった。
At the parting they choked up and could not speak.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)