吞并

吞併

tūnbìng

verb #21,434

Meanings

HSK 4

大公司常常吞并小公司来扩大规模。

Dà gōngsī chángcháng tūnbìng xiǎo gōngsī lái kuòdà guīmó.

Large companies often swallow up small ones to expand their scale.

HSK 7-9

这个国家试图吞并邻国的土地。

Zhège guójiā shìtú tūnbìng línguó de tǔdì.

This country attempted to annex the territory of its neighbor.

memory

吞 means to swallow whole, and 并 means to merge/combine - 吞并 is to swallow and absorb completely, like a predator consuming its prey whole.

吞 tūn

并 bìng