囤 (tún): to store up; to stockpile; to h…

Meanings

1 to store up; to stockpile; to hoard

Characters

囤

tún

to store up; to stockpile; to hoard

Examples

有些商人囤货抬价。

Yǒuxiē shāngrén túnhuò tái jià.

Some merchants hoard goods to drive up prices.

台风来前，大家抢着囤积食物。

Táifēng lái qián, dàjiā qiǎngzhe túnjī shíwù.

When a typhoon is coming, people rush to stockpile food.

Tips

usage

In the verb sense the reading is tún. Key compounds: 囤积 (to hoard) and 囤货 (to stockpile goods). Often carries a negative tone of profiteering.

Components

radical

囗 wéi

enclosure

The big enclosure radical wraps the inside, picturing a storage pen or granary that holds goods. Its strokes split across the order: the top and left frame first, the bottom line last after the inner element is written. Same enclosure family as 国 and 园.

phonetic

屯 tún

to gather; to station

Inside 屯 supplies the sound — tún with no shift in the verb reading. Its own 'to gather, mass together' sense also reinforces the storing meaning, so it doubles as a faint semantic hint.