Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced tun

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced tun, including 吞 tūn. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

To say tun, release air on the aspirated t, glide into un, and ride the tone — keep it joined as one sound.

Start the syllable on the initial t, then run straight into the final un — keep them joined instead of sounding out separate English letters.

Settle the final un into a steady mouth shape first, then lay the tone on top.

Only one common character is read tun (吞 tūn) — focus on locking in its tone.

tun turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 1st tone here: 吞 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing tun inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.