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镦

dūn

Character Traditional 鐓

What 镦 means

1. upsetting (forged pieces)

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
• 暾tūnsun above the horizon
• 礅dūnstone block

Characters that look like 镦

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

• 徽huībadge; emblem; insignia
• 辙zhérut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 镰lián(bound form) sickle
• 镫dèngstirrup
• 擞sǒuused in 抖擞
• 橛juéa peg; low post

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
• 礅stone block
• 蹾(colloquial) to put sth down heavily; to plonk
• 墫old variant of 蹲