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礅

dūn

Character

What 礅 means

1. stone block

Characters built on 敦

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

• 墩dūnblock; gate pillar; pier
• 镦dūnupsetting (forged pieces)
• 暾tūnsun above the horizon

Sounds the same

Read dūn, tone for tone, but written differently.

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