吞吞吐吐

Chinese

		to swallow; to take	to swallow; to take	vomit; to spit	vomit; to spit
simp. and trad. (吞吞吐吐)		吞	吞	吐	吐
AABB-type reduplication of 吞吐 (tūntǔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tūntūntǔtǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄣ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄊㄨˇ ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tan¹ tan¹ tou³ tou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tūntūntǔtǔ [Phonetic: tūntūntútǔ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄣ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄊㄨˇ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuntuntǔtǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻun¹-tʻun¹-tʻu³-tʻu³
    • Yale: twūn-twūn-tǔ-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuentuentuutuu
    • Palladius: туньтуньтуту (tunʹtunʹtutu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ən⁵⁵ tʰu̯ən⁵⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tan¹ tan¹ tou³ tou³
    • Yale: tān tān tou tou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tan¹ tan¹ tou³ tou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ten¹ ten¹ tou³ tou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐn⁵⁵ tʰɐn⁵⁵ tʰou̯³³ tʰou̯³³/

Verb

吞吞吐吐

1. to mutter and mumble; to hum and haw; to stumble over one's words; to speak in a halting way

   他說話吞吞吐吐。 [MSC, trad.]
   他说话吞吞吐吐。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā shuōhuà tūntūntǔtǔ. [Pinyin]

   He mutters and mumbles when he speaks.