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吨

dūn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 5 Character Traditional 噸

吨 (dūn) means "ton". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 吨 means

1. ton (loanword)
2. Taiwan pr. dùn

Example sentences

• 我们要订18吨橄榄油。
  Wǒmen yào dìng 18 dūn gǎnlǎnyóu.
  We'd like to order 18 tonnes of olive oil.
• 这只灰熊有0.5吨重。
  This grizzly bear weighs half a ton.
• 货车的载货量超过了三吨。
  Huòchē de zàihuò liáng chāoguò le sān dūn.
  The load of the truck was in excess of three tons.
• 这辆卡车最大的载重量是5吨。
  Zhè liàng kǎchē zuì dà de zàizhòngliàng shì 5 dūn.
  This truck has a maximum load of 5 tons.
• 这座巧克力工厂每一天消耗二十公吨可可原料。
  This chocolate factory consumes twenty metric tons of raw cocoa per day.
• 一项估计显示，今年的钢鉄产量将会达到一亿吨。
  Yī xiàng gūjì xiǎnshì, jīnnián de gāng tiě chǎnliàng jiānghuì dádào yī yì dūn.
  According to an estimate, steel production will reach 100 million tons this year.

Words starting with 吨

• 吨位dūn wèitonnage
• 吨数dūn shùtonnage
• 吨级dūn jítonnage; class in tons (of a passenger ship)
• 吨公里dūn gōng lǐton-kilometer (unit of capacity of transport system)

Words containing 吨

• 公吨gōng dūnton; metric ton
• 英吨Yīng dūntonne; imperial or US tonne, equal to 2240 pounds or 1.016 metric tons
• 总吨位zǒng dūn wèioverall tonnage (of a shipping fleet or company)
• 重量吨zhòng liàng dūndead weight ton
• 千吨qiān dūnkiloton
• 𪢠吨Lán dūn(old) London (now written 伦敦
• 百万吨bǎi wàn dūnmegaton; million tons
• 呫吨zhān dūnxanthene (chemistry)
• 呫吨酮zhān dūn tóngxanthone (chemistry)
• 等效百万吨当量děng xiào bǎi wàn dūn dāng liàngequivalent megatonnage (EMT)

Characters built on 屯

These share the phonetic component 屯 (tún), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 顿dùnto stop; to pause; to arrange
• 纯chúnpure; simple; unmixed
• 钝dùnblunt; stupid
• 炖dùnto stew
• 沌dùnused in 混沌
• 囤dùnbin for grain
• 盹dǔndoze; nap
• 邨Cūnsurname Cun

Characters that look like 吨

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 呃è(exclamation); to hiccup
• 鸣míngto cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound…
• 咙lóngused in 喉咙
• 吱zhī(onomatopoeia) creaking or groaning
• 咆páoto roar

Sounds the same

Read dūn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蹲to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere)
• 敦kindhearted; place name
• 墩block; gate pillar; pier
• 惇kindhearted; honest
• 镦upsetting (forged pieces)
• 礅stone block
• 蹾(colloquial) to put sth down heavily; to plonk
• 墫old variant of 蹲

Where 吨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Measurement, Quantity & Units (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dūn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.