Word details

誤嚥

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 誤嚥.

Dictionary

Entry

誤嚥誤えんえんNounTransitive~する VerbFreq #131144
1

Medicine

breathing in (of a foreign body, food, etc.); pulmonary aspiration; mis-swallowing; swallowing down the wrong pipe

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

mistake, err, do wrong, mislead

14 strokesFrequency 1,150JLPT N2Grade 6

On

Kun

あやま.る-あやま.る

swallow

19 strokes

On

エン

Kun

の.む

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