狼吞虎嚥

See also: 狼吞虎咽

Chinese

		wolf	to swallow; to take	tiger	to swallow
trad. (狼吞虎嚥/狼吞虎咽)		狼	吞	虎	嚥/咽
simp. (狼吞虎咽)		狼	吞	虎	咽
Literally: “To gulp down like wolves and tigers”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lángtūnhǔyàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄤˊ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄏㄨˇ ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): long⁴ tan¹ fu² jin³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lángtūnhǔyàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄤˊ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄏㄨˇ ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lángtunhǔyàn
    • Wade–Giles: lang²-tʻun¹-hu³-yen⁴
    • Yale: láng-twūn-hǔ-yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: langtuenhuuyann
    • Palladius: лантуньхуянь (lantunʹxujanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑŋ³⁵ tʰu̯ən⁵⁵ xu²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: long⁴ tan¹ fu² jin³
    • Yale: lòhng tān fú yin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: long⁴ tan¹ fu² jin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: long⁴ ten¹ fu² yin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːŋ²¹ tʰɐn⁵⁵ fuː³⁵ jiːn³³/

Idiom

狼吞虎嚥

1. to gorge; to wolf down