吞 — Chinese character
吞
tūn
to absorb, to annex; to engulf; to swallow
- Pinyin
- tūn
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 天 口
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 天
- Japanese
- 吞 as a kanji
Common words with 吞
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吞噬 | tūn shì | to swallow; to engulf |
| 吞并 (吞併) | tūn bìng | to annex |
| 吞吐量 | tūn tǔ liàng | throughput |
| 侵吞 | qīn tūn | to annex; to swallow (up) |
| 吞没 (吞沒) | tūn mò | to embezzle; to swallow up |
| 忍气吞声 (忍氣吞聲) | rěn qì tūn shēng | to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger |
| 吞食 | tūn shí | to devour |
| 吞吐 | tūn tǔ | to take in and send out (in large quantities) |
| 并吞 (併吞) | bìng tūn | to swallow up; to annex |
| 独吞 (獨吞) | dú tūn | to hog; to keep everything for oneself |
| 慢吞吞 | màn tūn tūn | very slow; exasperatingly slow |
| 吞咽 (吞嚥) | tūn yàn | to swallow; to gulp |
English words written with 吞
吞 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.