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臀

tún

Character

What 臀 means

1. buttocks; hips; rump

Other readings

臀 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• túnold variant of {臀|tún}

Words starting with 臀

• 臀部tún bùbutt; buttocks
• 臀位tún wèibreech presentation (obstetrics)
• 臀围tún wéihip measurement
• 臀尖tún jiānpork rump
• 臀推tún tuīmassage using one's buttocks
• 臀沟tún gōugluteal fold
• 臀肌tún jīgluteal muscle; gluteus; buttocks
• 臀大肌tún dà jī(anatomy) gluteus maximus
• 臀位分娩tún wèi fēn miǎnbreech delivery (medicine)
• 臀位取胎术tún wèi qǔ tāi shùbreech extraction (medicine)
• 臀产式分娩tún chǎn shì fēn miǎnbreech delivery (medicine)
• 臀瓣tún bànanal lobe
• 臀鳍tún qíanal fin
• 臀疣tún yóumonkey's seat pads (zoology)

Words containing 臀

• 窟臀kū túnbuttocks (dialect)
• 腰臀比yāo tún bǐwaist-to-hip ratio
• 蜜桃臀mì táo tún(colloquial) peach butt; round, firm buttocks
• 电臀舞diàn tún wǔtwerking, sexually provocative dance involving hip movements while in a low, squatting…
• 翘臀qiào tún(colloquial) perky butt
• 蜥臀目xī tún mùSaurischia or lizard-hipped dinosaurs, order within superorder Dinosauria
• 笞臀chī túnto whip the buttocks
• 掇臀捧屁duō tún pěng pìto hold up buttocks and praise a fart (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants…
• 黄臀鹎huáng tún bēi(bird species of China) brown-breasted bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthorrhous)
• 白喉红臀鹎bái hóu hóng tún bēi(bird species of China) sooty-headed bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster)
• 黑喉红臀鹎hēi hóu hóng tún bēi(bird species of China) red-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer)
• 栗臀䴓lì tún shī(bird species of China) chestnut-vented nuthatch (Sitta nagaensis)
• 棕臀噪鹛zōng tún zào méi(bird species of China) rufous-vented laughingthrush (Pterorhinus gularis)

Characters built on 月

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

• 豚túnsuckling pig
• 肫zhūngizzard

Characters that look like 臀

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

• 赞zàn(bound form) to praise; to laud (variant of 赞
• 繁fáncomplicated; many; in great numbers
• 瞥piēto shoot a glance; glance; to appear in a flash
• 餮tiè(literary) greedy; gluttonous
• 燮xièto blend; to adjust; to harmonize
• 瞽gǔblind; undiscerning

Sounds the same

Read tún, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 屯to station (soldiers); to store up; village
• 豚suckling pig
• 囤to store; to hoard
• 饨used in 馄饨; Taiwan pr. dùn
• 芚green sprout; foolish
• 軘war chariot
• 鲀pufferfish (family Tetraodontidae)
• 㹠old variant of 豚