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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition


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gěng
    geng3
keng
 nogi
    のぎ
to choke on a piece of food; (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat
(archaism) small fish bone stuck in one's throat

鯁喉


鲠喉

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gěng hóu
    geng3 hou2
keng hou
to choke on a piece of food etc

鯁直


鲠直

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gěng zhí
    geng3 zhi2
keng chih
variant of 耿直[geng3 zhi2]

骨鯁


骨鲠

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gǔ gěng
    gu3 geng3
ku keng
fish bone; bone stuck in the throat; something one feels obliged to speak out about; candid speaker

如鯁在喉


如鲠在喉

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rú gěng zài hóu
    ru2 geng3 zai4 hou2
ju keng tsai hou
lit. as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. very upset and needing to express one's displeasure

骨鯁之臣


骨鲠之臣

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gǔ gěng zhī chén
    gu3 geng3 zhi1 chen2
ku keng chih ch`en
    ku keng chih chen
lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom); fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism

骨鯁在喉


骨鲠在喉

see styles
gǔ gěng zài hóu
    gu3 geng3 zai4 hou2
ku keng tsai hou
fish bone stuck in one's throat (idiom); fig. to feel obliged to speak out candidly; something on one's mind

Variations:
硬骨
鯁骨(rK)

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 koukotsu / kokotsu
    こうこつ
(1) (硬骨 only) bone; (n,adj-no,adj-na) (2) firmness (of character); backbone; unyielding spirit

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 8 results for "鯁" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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