U+541E "吞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
吞
U+541E "吞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to swallow" or "to devour," often conveying the act of taking something into the mouth and down the throat. It is also used metaphorically to imply absorbing or annexing, such as in the context of "吞并" meaning to swallow up or merge with territory or resources. Composed of the radical 口 (mouth) and a phonetic component, this character appears in common Chinese words like "吞咽" (to swallow) and "吞噬" (to engulf), and it can be found in historical texts and modern usage across East Asian languages, including Japanese and Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+541E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 吞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 吞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x90 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x541E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000541E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u541e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A75D |
| kCCCII | 21354F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-493F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-493F |
| kCangjie | HKR |
| kCantonese | tan1 |
| kCihaiT | 257.402 |
| kCowles | 4329 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0395.020 |
| kDefinition | swallow; absorb, annex, engulf |
| kEACC | 21354F |
| kFanqie | 吐根 他前 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2060.3 |
| kGB0 | 4544 |
| kGB1 | 4544 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0361d |
| kHanYu | 10585.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tūn(30) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10585.040:tūn,tiān |
| kHKGlyph | 0509 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0395.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10585.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0177.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4D4C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A75D |
| kIRG_JSource | J3A-4F7E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-493F |
| kJapanese | ドン トン テン のむ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kTGH | 2013:607 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,47,94 |
| kJapaneseKun | NOMU |
| kJapaneseOn | DON TON TEN |
| kKangXi | 0177.180 |
| kKorean | THAN |
| kLau | 3037 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0691 |
| kMandarin | tūn |
| kMatthews | 6587 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3010 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008086 |
| kMorohashi | 03329 |
| kNelson | 0191 |
| kPhonetic | 1337 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+13964+30.3.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.4 |
| kSBGY | 120.33 133.18 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5451<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 92.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tūn粵tan1 |
| kTang | *tən |
| kTGHZ2013 | 374.070:tūn |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 252:323 |
| kXHC1983 | 1169.030:tūn |