Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yàn
English
- swallow, gulp
- to swallow
- to swallow
粵語
- 吞下一啲嘢
Variants
Words containing 嚥
- 嚥住jit3 zyu6
to suppress (a sob, harsh words etc)
- 嚥氣jin3 hei3
to die
- 下嚥haa6 jin3
to swallow (food or drink)
- 嚥下jin3 haa6
to swallow
- 吞嚥tan1 jin3
to swallow
- 狼吞虎嚥long4 tan1 fu2 jin3
to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously
- 嚥口水jin3 hau2 seoi2
- 嚥下困難jin3 haa6 kwan3 naan4
dysphagia (medicine)
- 細嚼慢嚥sai3 zoek3 maan6 jin3
to eat slowly (idiom)
- 吞嚥困難tan1 jin3 kwan3 naan4
dysphagia (medicine)