吞

See also: 呑
吞 U+541E, 吞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-541E
← 吝
[U+541D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 吟 →
[U+541F]

Translingual

Han character

吞 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一大口 (MKR), four-corner 20603, composition ⿱天口)

  1. swallow
  2. absorb, annex, engulf

References
  • KangXi: page 177, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3329
  • Dae Jaweon: page 395, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 585, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+541E

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 吞
variant forms 呑

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (天) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
添 *tʰiːm
忝 *l̥ʰiːmʔ, *l̥ʰiːms
悿 *tʰiːmʔ
舔 *l̥ʰiːmʔ
菾 *diːm
天 *qʰl'iːn
吞 *qʰl'iːn, *qʰl'ɯːn
祆 *qʰliːn
蚕 *zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ

Pronunciation
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 吞
Mandarin Beijing /tʰuən⁵⁵/
Harbin /tʰuən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /tʰuən²¹/
Jinan /tʰuẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /tʰuə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /tʰən²⁴/
Xi'an /tʰəŋ²¹/
Xining /tʰə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /tʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /tʰũn³¹/
Ürümqi /tʰɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /tʰən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /tʰən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /tʰen⁵⁵/
Kunming /tʰuə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /tʰən³¹/ ～下去
/tʰun³¹/ 溫～水
Hefei /tʰən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /tʰuəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /tʰəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /tʰə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /tʰəŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /tʰən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /tʰen³³/
Wenzhou /tʰø³³/
/tʰaŋ³³/ 慢～～
Hui Shexian /tʰʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /tʰin¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /tʰən³³/
Xiangtan /tʰən³³/
Gan Nanchang /tʰɛn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /tʰun⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʰun²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tʰɐn⁵³/
Nanning /tʰɐn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /tʰɐn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tʰun⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tʰouŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tʰɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tʰuŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hun²³/
Rime
Character 吞
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 痕 (53)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 吐根切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰən/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰən/
Li
Rong		 /tʰən/
Wang
Li		 /tʰən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tūn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 吞
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tūn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˁən/
English to swallow

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 吞
Reading # 2/2
No. 12391
Phonetic
component		 天
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 吞
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰl'ɯːn/

Definitions

吞

  1. to swallow

Compounds
Derived terms from 吞

Etymology 2
simp. and trad.
 吞
variant forms 吴

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 吞
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 他前切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰen/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰen/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰɛn/
Li
Rong		 /tʰen/
Wang
Li		 /tʰien/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tiān
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 吞
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tiān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ then ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˁən/
English (surname)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 吞
Reading # 1/2
No. 12388
Phonetic
component		 天
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 天
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰl'iːn/

Definitions

吞

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji
吞

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): どん (don); とん (ton); てん (ten)
  • Kun: のむ (nomu, 吞む)

Korean

Hanja

吞 • (tan) (hangeul 탄, revised tan, McCune–Reischauer t'an)

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Vietnamese

Han character

吞 (thôn, xôn)

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