Keyword
to swallow
- to absorb
- to annex
- to engulf
- Frequency
- #2036
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
tūn
Mnemonic
口 (mouth) gives the meaning and 天 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
吞
to swallow; to take
吞噬
to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
吞并
to annex
吞吐量
throughput
侵吞
to annex; to swallow (up); to embezzle
吞没
to embezzle; to swallow up; to engulf
忍气吞声
to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger; to grin and bear it
吞食
to devour
吞吐
to take in and send out (in large quantities)
并吞
to swallow up; to annex; to merge
独吞
to hog; to keep everything for oneself
慢吞吞
very slow; exasperatingly slow
吞咽
to swallow; to gulp
吞吞吐吐
to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth; to speak and break off, then start again; to hold sth back
私吞
to misappropriate (public funds etc); to embezzle
狼吞虎咽
to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously; to gorge oneself
吞精
to swallow semen
吞服
to swallow; to take (medicine)
生吞活剥
to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
吞云吐雾
to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom); to blow cigarette or opium smoke
吞噬细胞
phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)
囫囵吞枣
to swallow in one gulp (idiom); (fig.) to accept without thinking; to lap up
巴吞鲁日
Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana
云吞
wonton