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蚕食鲸吞

cán shí jīng tūn

4-character word Traditional 蠶食鯨吞

What 蚕食鲸吞 means

  1. (lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom)
  2. (fig.) to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale

The characters in 蚕食鲸吞

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