in English

gěng
to choke on a piece of food / (literary) a fish bone lodged in one's throat

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 鯁, the traditional character: 鲠 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 鯁 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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