Memory phrase for the Kanji: 咽

咽

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Meaning gorge, throat, to be choked

Pronunciation

IN
musebu

Explanation

Left: mouth 口, right: reason 因 (For the fence 囗 around the big 大 person is a reason.)

Mnemonic
 
It is at the mouth and an enclosure/restriction 囗 in respect to the size 大 (of the food): The gorge.

Radicals

口 mouthA small square 口 stands for the mouth, and a big square 囗 is an enclosure.
因 reason, cause
囗 enclosureThe radical kunigamae surrounds/encloses further components and thus differs from the simple square that stands for mouth 口.
大 bigA person 人 with wide spread arms 一 and legs appears big.
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 Vocabulary

咽ぶ むせぶ  suffocate
咽喉 いんこう  throat

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