吞
tūn HSK6

swallow

吞 tūn
to swallow verb
To swallow something whole or without chewing; to gulp down.

她吞下了钻石！

tā tūn xia le zuàn​shí!

She swallowed the diamond!

狗不会吞下舌头。

gǒu bù​huì tūn xia shé​tou.

Dogs won't swallow their tongues.

to contain verb
To take in, hold, or contain; to embrace or envelop something large.
to annex
To seize or take possession of something; to annex or absorb, often through illegal or forceful means.
Tun
A Chinese surname.

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Antonym

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,797th most common 47.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,854th most common 25.1 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
19.7 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
12.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+541E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)