噎

meaning for 噎 yē:

• - to choke (on)
• - to choke up
• - to suffocateto soblit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom)
• - fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face
• - to avoid sth essential because of a slight riskto choke on one's food
• - to be choked up emotionally, unable to speakto choke (on)
• - to choke off (in speech)thoracic choke (animal harness)