Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tūn
English
- swallow
- to swallow
- take possession
- to swallow; to gulp down
- absorb, annex, engulf
- to take
粵語
- 將一樣嘢由嘴傳落食道
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 吞
- 雲吞wan4 tan1
wonton
- 吞噬tan1 sai6
to swallow
- 吞併tan1 ping3
to annex
- 侵吞cam1 tan1
to annex
- 吞槍tan1 coeng1
to commit suicide by shooting oneself in the throat with a gun
- 吞蛋tan1 daan2
lit. swallow an egg, meaning to score nil or no marks in a sport match or exam
- 獨吞duk6 tan1
to hog
- 鯨吞king4 tan1
swallow like a whale; to devour; to annex (territory); to seize and occupy
- 慢吞吞maan6 tan1 tan1
very slow
- 慢吞吞maan6 tan1 tan1
very slow
- 吞吐量tan1 tou3 loeng6
throughput
- 吞噗tan1 pok1
to slack off; to sneak away [colloquial]
- 吞金tan1 gam1
to commit suicide by swallowing gold
- 吞吃tan1 hek3
to devour
- 吞泡tan1 pok1
to be lazy at work, to waste time at work, to "goof off" , to "slack off" ; literally: swallow bubbles
- 私吞si1 tan1
to misappropriate (public funds etc)
- 吞滅tan1 mit6
to absorb
- 吞拿魚tan1 naa4 jyu2
(loanword) tuna
- 忍氣吞聲jan2 hei3 tan1 sing1
to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence
- 吞沒tan1 mut6
to embezzle
- 吞食tan1 sik6
to devour
- 吞聲tan1 sing1
to swallow one's cries
- 吞拿tan1 naa4
- 吞精tan1 zing1
to swallow semen