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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

吞咽

tūnyàn

to swallow

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to swallow

02

to gulp

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 吞咽 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吞咽 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

食物在吞咽前要经过咀嚼。shí wù zài tūn yàn qián yào jīng guò jǔ jué。

Food should be chewed before being swallowed.

我吞咽的时候喉咙痛。wǒ tūn yàn de shí hòu hóu lóng tòng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 吞咽.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吞咽.

Directly before

  • 我吞咽1
  • 在吞咽1

Directly after

  • 吞咽的1
  • 吞咽前要1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 吞咽

What does 吞咽 mean in Chinese?

吞咽 (tūnyàn) means to swallow.

How do you pronounce 吞咽?

吞咽 is pronounced tūnyàn.

Is 吞咽 an HSK word?

吞咽 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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