咽 — throat, choked, smothered

いん咽 throat

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+54BD Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #628 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

throat
choked
smothered
stuffy

word

いん in On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

咽(いん) 喉(こう) inkou throat

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

いん因 cause

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#30 口 mouth