Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
Variants:

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On reading compounds

  • 咽喉 【インコウ】 throat, vital passage, key position
  • 咽喉頭異常感症 【インコウトウイジョウカンショウ】 globus pharyngis, lump in one's throat, pharyngolaryngeal paresthesia
  • 嚥下 【エンゲ】 swallowing, deglutition
  • 哀咽 【アイエツ】 being choked with tears
  • 嗚咽 【オエツ】 sobbing, weeping, fit of crying

Kun reading compounds

  • 咽ぶ 【むせぶ】 to be choked, to be stifled, to be smothered
  • 噎せる 【むせる】 to choke, to be choked by, to be stifled by
  • 喉 【のど】 throat, singing voice, gutter (inner margins of a book)
  • 喉から手が出る 【のどからてがでる】 (wanting something so badly that) one can almost taste it, a hand reaches out from one's throat

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan1, yan4, ye4
Korean:
in, yeol

Spanish

  • garganta
  • sofoco
  • atragantamiento
  • asfixia

Portuguese

French

920 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1872 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
412 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
309 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3577 Morohashi
788 New Nelson (John Haig)
2159 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
628 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d6.14 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
6600.0 Four corner code
1-16-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
54bd Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
cry, weep, moan
Kun:
な.く
On:
キュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1380 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 泣訴 【キュウソ】 imploring with tears in one's eyes
  • 号泣 【ゴウキュウ】 crying loudly, bawling, wailing, lamentation, crying one's eyes out (without making noise), breaking into a flood of tears, crying buckets, weeping
  • 哀泣 【アイキュウ】 crying with sadness

Kun reading compounds

  • 泣く 【なく】 to cry, to weep, to sob, to howl
  • 泣く子と地頭には勝てない 【なくことじとうにはかてない】 you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason, you can't fight City Hall

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi4
Korean:
eub

Spanish

  • llorar
  • gemir
  • cantar (pájaros)

Portuguese

  • choro
  • chorar
  • lamento

French

  • pleurer
  • gémir
479 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
838 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1192 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2532 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1049 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
678 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
590 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1236 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1300 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
252 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1171 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
396 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
253 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
300 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
439 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17309 Morohashi
338 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3104 New Nelson (John Haig)
432 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
463 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
500 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
373 2001 Kanji
3a5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
3011.8 Four corner code
1-21-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6ce3 Unicode hex code