cán shí jīng tūn
Traditional: 蠶食鯨吞
蚕食鲸吞 (cán shí jīng tūn) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom); fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale”.
Meanings
- 1lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom)
- 2fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale