Chou Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Mouth (kǒu)
Character: Tun
Kangxi stroke count: 7
Page 177, Entry 18
Tang Dynasty Rhyme Dictionary (Tangyun) states: Pronounced tun. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui) state: Pronounced tun. Same sound as the previous entry.
Shuowen Jiezi states: To swallow.
Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Sir Fantasy (Zixu Fu) states: Swallowed up like the Yunmeng marshes, eight or nine times over.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) states: Tun means to extinguish.
Augmented Rhymes (Zengyun) states: To swallow up and encompass.
Strategies of the Warring States (Zhan Guo Ce) states: Possessing the secret ambition to swallow the entire world.
Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) states: Pronounced tian. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) states: Pronounced tian. A surname. During the Han Dynasty, there was Tun Jingyun.
Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) states: To swallow.
Commentary on the Guliang Commentary to the Spring and Autumn Annals (Guliang Zhuan), third year of Duke Yin, states: What is swallowed and ingested enters into the interior.
Explication of Texts (Shiwen) states: Tun is pronounced chi.
Also pronounced tian.
Wang Yun poem: Valiant and truly matchless, imposing, how could there be anything ahead. All nine regions are easily lifted, the eight wilds are not enough to be swallowed.