抽咽
chōu yè
Pinyin

Definition

抽咽
 - 
chōu yè
  1. to sob

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

抽
chōu
  1. 1 to draw out
  2. 2 to pull out from in between
  3. 3 to remove part of the whole
  4. 4 (of certain plants) to sprout or bud
  5. 5 to whip or thrash
咽
yān
  1. 1 narrow pass
  2. 2 throat
  3. 3 pharynx
咽喉
yān hóu
  1. 1 throat
抽取
chōu qǔ
  1. 1 to extract
  2. 2 to remove
  3. 3 to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)
抽屉
chōu ti
  1. 1 drawer
抽搐
chōu chù
  1. 1 to twitch
抽烟
chōu yān
  1. 1 to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)
抽奖
chōu jiǎng
  1. 1 to draw a prize
  2. 2 a lottery
  3. 3 a raffle
抽空
chōu kòng
  1. 1 to find the time to do sth
抽筋
chōu jīn
  1. 1 cramp
  2. 2 charley horse
  3. 3 to pull a tendon
抽风
chōu fēng
  1. 1 to ventilate
  2. 2 to induce a draft
  3. 3 spasm
  4. 4 convulsion
老抽
lǎo chōu
  1. 1 dark soy sauce
吞咽
tūn yàn
  1. 1 to swallow
  2. 2 to gulp
咽炎
yān yán
  1. 1 pharyngitis
哽咽
gěng yè
  1. 1 to choke with emotion
  2. 2 to choke with sobs
呜咽
wū yè
  1. 1 to sob
  2. 2 to whimper
咽下
yàn xià
  1. 1 to swallow
  2. 2 to suppress
咽气
yàn qì
  1. 1 to die
  2. 2 to breathe one's last
找抽
zhǎo chōu
  1. 1 (coll.) to look for trouble
抽出
chōu chū
  1. 1 to take out
  2. 2 to extract

Idioms (6)

扼襟控咽
è jīn kòng yān
  1. 1 to secure a stranglehold (idiom); fig. to hold a strategic pass
抽丝剥茧
chōu sī bāo jiǎn
  1. 1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
  2. 2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
狼吞虎咽
láng tūn hǔ yàn
  1. 1 to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously
  2. 2 to gorge oneself
病来如山倒，病去如抽丝
bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī
  1. 1 sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
短中抽长
duǎn zhōng chōu cháng
  1. 1 to make the best of a bad job
  2. 2 to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)
细嚼慢咽
xì jiáo màn yàn
  1. 1 to eat slowly (idiom)

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