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Information of 吞

Pinyin tūn、 tiān

Radical

口

Strokes

7 strokes

Usage

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Definition

to swallow / to take

吞 [tūn] 动 1. 不嚼或不细嚼而咽入。 (1) Swallow without chewing: 吞吐 (tūn tǔ), 吞咽 (tūn yàn), 吞噬 (tūn shì). (2) The wolf swallows, the tiger gulps. (狼吞虎咽). (3) Swallowing mountains and rivers (气吞山河). (4) Endure and swallow down the voice (忍气吞声). 2. 兼并，侵占。 (1) Annexation, occupation: 吞没 (tūn mò), 吞并 (tūn bìng), 吞蚀 (tūn shí), 吞占 (tūn zhàn). 【本义】: 咽下 (original meaning: to swallow) 【造字法】: 形声。从口，天声 (character formation: a phonetic and semantic compound). 【引】【例】 (examples and references): 1. 《说文》：吞，咽也。 (Shuōwén: "swallow means to gulp"). 2. 吞舟大鱼也。——《后汉书·杜笃传》注 (The fish that swallows boats). 3. 宋·范仲淹《岳阳楼记》：吞长江。 (Swallowing the Yangtze River). 4. 宋·苏轼《石钟山记》：与风水相吞吐。 (Intertwined with wind and water). 5. 宋·辛弃疾《永遇乐·京口北固亭怀古》：气吞万里如虎。 (Mad with a spirit like a tiger devouring thousands of miles). 6. 吞炭 (swallowing coal ruins the throat); 吞舌 (closing the mouth and being silent); 吞舟 (swallowing boats – referring to mighty fish); 吞刀刮肠 (to be resolute and rectify oneself); 吞牛 (a metaphor for youthful bravado); 吞咀 (to swallow food); 吞下一条鳝鱼 (swallowed an eel). 3. 容纳 (to contain). 【引】 1. 司马相如《子虚赋》：吞若云梦者八九。 (To contain like the Yunmeng Marsh). 4. 忍受 (to suffer). 【引】 1. 《聊斋异·促织》：气断声吞。 (Suffocating the voice in frustration). 【例】 1. 吞恨 (to swallow resentment). 形痴呆 (dull-witted). 【引】 1. 汤显祖《牡丹亭·腐叹》：灯窗苦吟，寒酸撒吞。 (A lament about being dull and poor).

吞吐量 tūn tǔ liàng

handling capacity / cargo handling capacity / throughput capacity

吞吞吐吐 tūn tūn tǔ tǔ

to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth / to speak and break off, then start again / to hold sth back

吞吐 tūn tǔ

to take in and send out (in large quantities)

吞云吐雾 tūn yún tǔ wù

to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom) / to blow cigarette or opium smoke

吞噬 tūn shì

to swallow / to engulf / to gobble up

吞并 tūn bìng

to annex

吞没 tūn mò

to embezzle / to swallow up / to engulf

吞咽 tūn yàn

to swallow / to gulp

吞食 tūn shí

to devour

慢吞吞 màn tūn tūn

very slow / exasperatingly slow

狼吞虎咽 láng tūn hǔ yàn

to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously / to gorge oneself

并吞 bìng tūn

to swallow up / to annex / to merge

忍气吞声 rěn qì tūn shēng

to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence / to swallow one's anger / to grin and bear it

独吞 dú tūn

to hog / to keep everything for oneself

吞服 tūn fú

to swallow / to take (medicine)

吞声 tūn shēng

to swallow one's cries

鲸吞 jīng tūn

swallow like a whale / annex (territory)

吞灭 tūn miè

to absorb

吞噬细胞 tūn shì xì bāo

phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)

吞蚀 tūn shí

Devour

囫囵吞枣 hú lún tūn zǎo

to swallow in one gulp (idiom) / (fig.) to accept without thinking / to lap up

生吞活剥 shēng tūn huó bō

to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically

侵吞 qīn tūn

to annex / to swallow (up) / to embezzle