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Meaning of 囤

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Polyphone (多音字)
Total strokes: 7; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (enclosure) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Full surround
    • [ wéi ] enclosure; border
    • [ tún ] village, hamlet; camp; station
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Pinyin: tún
English Definition:to store; hoard
Chinese Definition:
①储存,积存粮食货物:囤积(积聚贮存)。囤集。囤聚。囤积居奇(指投机商人大量购存货物)。
Example Words:
囤积 tún to stock up; to lay in supplies; to hoard (for speculation); to corner the market in sth
囤积居奇 tún to hoard and profiteer; to speculate
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Pinyin: dùn
English Definition:bin for grain
Chinese Definition:
①用竹篾、荆条等编织成的或用席箔等围成的存放粮食等农产品的器物:粮囤。大囤满,小囤流。
Example Sentences
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使
Rapacious hoarding earned some the title of land kings.
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Of course, some investors are fine with letting Apple sit on the cash.
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Any rail staff found hoarding tickets or selling them to scalpers would be fired.
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A writer I know whose mother had Alzheimer' s told me she is stockpiling pills.
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"I am not going to hoard any rice, prices are very stable here," said Mr Hu, an office worker in Beijing.