咽 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yān ㄧㄢ 咽 throat pharynx 咽 narrow pass yè ㄧㄝˋ 咽 to choke (in crying) yàn ㄧㄢˋ 嚥 to swallow Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT