Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
tūn - to swallow
- to take

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 6 3,272 7,299 4,286

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Mouth

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 6 3,272 7,299 4,286
吞噬 - - 9,117 12,497 13,227
生吞活剥 - - 20,427 86,057 85,187
独吞 - - 20,725 63,342 53,318
狼吞虎咽 - - 20,901 40,904 27,831
吞并 - - 21,434 32,357 53,414
忍气吞声 - - 22,610 35,539 28,429
吞没 - - 22,918 31,699 34,504
吞咽 6 - 23,709 25,485 26,803
吞食 - - 23,740 36,448 32,681
慢吞吞 - - 24,877 40,188 30,018
吞吞吐吐 - - 29,045 39,431 51,105
侵吞 - - 33,446 26,077 35,153
慢慢吞吞 - - 41,856 - 87,612
吞云吐雾 - - 42,164 64,631 50,556
吞服 - - 49,289 - -
并吞 - - 59,595 77,392 100,221
吞吐 - - 62,158 29,666 58,429
囫囵吞枣 - - 91,283 87,343 63,577
蚕食鲸吞 - - 96,793 - -