呜咽

• 拼音: wū yè
• 汉字拆解: 呜 = 口 + 乌 (mouth like a crow calling — a mournful cry); 咽 = 口 + 因 (mouth constricted — choking back)

含义

To sob; to whimper; to make a mournful, suppressed crying sound. Also used for melancholy natural sounds resembling sobbing.

Literary and poetic register. Used for human sobbing that is suppressed or stifled and for mournful natural sounds (风声呜咽 = the wind wailing like a sob). More evocative and restrained than 哭泣 (weep) — implies sorrow held back rather than openly released.

例句

1. 她独自坐在角落里，低低地呜咽着，不愿让任何人看到她脆弱的一面。
2. 深夜里，窗外的寒风呜咽着穿过树梢，令人平添了几分莫名的悲凉。
3. 老人听到噩耗后，无声地呜咽了很久，眼泪顺着布满皱纹的脸颊缓缓流下。

用法指南

语境: literature, emotion, nature imagery

语气: melancholy

正确说法

• 小说中有一段极为动人的描写：母亲跪在儿子的墓前，无声地呜咽，双手颤抖着抚摸着冰冷的石碑。(There is an extremely moving passage in the novel: the mother kneels before her son's grave, silently sobbing, her hands trembling as they stroke the cold stone tablet.)
• 秋风呜咽，落叶纷飞，诗人独立于荒凉的古道旁，心中涌起难以言说的思乡之情。(The autumn wind wails like sobbing and fallen leaves scatter — the poet stands alone beside a desolate ancient road, overcome by a homesickness impossible to put into words.)

错误说法

• 他大声呜咽 — 呜咽 specifically implies suppressed, quiet, or restrained sobbing; for loud open weeping use 嚎啕大哭 or 放声大哭; combining 大声 with 呜咽 is contradictory

起源与历史

呜 (onomatopoeia for weeping or wailing) + 咽 (to swallow — swallowing back tears and sobs)

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal