咙
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used in 喉嚨|喉咙[hou2 long2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 嚨
- Common rank
- #5,606
- Unicode
- U+5499
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 咙
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 喉咙 | the throat |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 龙 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 龙 sound part | dragon; symbol of the emperor | |
| 笼 | basket; cage; bamboo basket used to serve dimsum | |
| 宠 | to love; to favor, to pamper, to spoil; concubine | |
| 拢 | to collect, to bring together | |
| 聋 | deaf | |
| 陇 | a mountain located in the Shanxi provice | |
| 垄 | grave, mound; furrow, ridge | |
| 珑 | the tinkling of jewelry | |
| 泷 | raining; wet, soaked; rapids; a river in Guangdong | |
| 胧 | blurry, obscured; the condition or appearance of the moon | |
| 茏 | tall grass; water-weeds | |
| 眬 | faint, fuzzy, blurry | |
| 砻 | millstone; to grind, to mill | |
| 垅 | grave, mound; furrow, ridge | |
| 栊 | cage, pen; grating |