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    3. 誤嚥

    誤嚥

    誤ご嚥えん

    breathing in (of a foreign body, food, etc.)

    NTNoun, Participle, Verb, TransitiveMedicine & HealthKanji Vocab33 strokes

    誤えん

    ごえん

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    breathing in (of a foreign body, food, etc.), pulmonary aspiration, mis-swallowing, swallowing down the wrong pipe
    medicine

    Stroke 0 / 33

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    Kanji that make up this word

    誤
    あやま.る・-あやま.る…(1)
    mistake・err・do wrong・mislead
    嚥
    の.む…(1)
    swallow
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