吞吃

Chinese

		to swallow; to take	eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer
simp. and trad. (吞吃)		吞	吃

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tūnchī

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄣ ㄔ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tan¹ hek³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tūnchī
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄣ ㄔ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tunchih
    • Wade–Giles: tʻun¹-chʻih¹
    • Yale: twūn-chr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuenchy
    • Palladius: туньчи (tunʹči)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ən⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tan¹ hek³
    • Yale: tān hek
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tan¹ hek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: ten¹ hég³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐn⁵⁵ hɛːk̚³/

Verb

吞吃

1. to swallow (to cause food, drink, etc. to pass from the mouth into the stomach)
2. to embezzle; to misappropriate

Synonyms

• (to swallow): 吞 (tūn)
• (to embezzle): 吞沒／吞没 (tūnmò)