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顿

dùn

HSK 4 Character Traditional 頓

What 顿 means

1. to stop
2. to pause
3. to arrange
4. to lay out
5. to kowtow
6. to stamp (one's foot)
7. at once
8. classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal

Example sentences

• 这顿饭不咸。
  Zhè dùn fàn bù xián.
  The meal is not salty.
• 他来自波士顿。
  I'm from Boston.
• 我们在波士顿。
  We're in Boston.
• 我想念波士顿。
  I miss Boston.
• 我在回波士顿。
  I'm on my way back to Boston.
• 他怀念波士顿。
  He misses Boston.

Words starting with 顿

• 顿时dùn shíimmediately; suddenly
• 顿悟dùn wùa flash of realization; the truth in a flash; a moment of enlightenment (usually Buddhist)
• 顿觉dùn juéto feel suddenly; to realize abruptly
• 顿足dùn zústamp (one's feet)
• 顿然dùn ránsuddenly; abruptly
• 顿号dùn hàoenumeration comma (、) (used to separate words or phrases in a list)
• 顿首dùn shǒukowtow
• 顿河Dùn HéDon River
• 顿涅斯克Dùn niè sī kèDonetsk region of W. Ukraine
• 顿涅茨克Dùn niè cí kèDonetsk, city in Ukraine
• 顿挫dùn cuòa transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes; a cadence…
• 顿挫抑扬dùn cuò yì yángcadence; modulation

Words containing 顿

• 停顿tíng dùnto halt; to break off; pause (in speech)
• 整顿zhěng dùnto tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate
• 安顿ān dùnto find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for
• 波士顿Bō shì dùnBoston, capital of Massachusetts
• 曼哈顿Màn hā dùnManhattan island; Manhattan borough of New York City
• 普林斯顿Pǔ lín sī dùnPrinceton, New Jersey
• 休斯顿Xiū sī dùnHouston, Texas
• 普林斯顿大学Pǔ lín sī dùn Dà xuéPrinceton University
• 牛顿niú dùnnewton (SI unit of force)
• 德累斯顿Dé léi sī dùnDresden, capital of Saxony 萨克森州
• 劳顿láo dùn(literary) fatigued; wearied
• 困顿kùn dùnfatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken
• 埃弗顿Āi fú dùnEverton (town in northwest England); Everton soccer team
• 希尔顿Xī ěr dùnHilton (hotel chain)
• 茅塞顿开máo sè dùn kāimurky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
• 马其顿Mǎ qí dùnMacedonia
• 代顿Dài dùnDayton (city in Ohio)
• 卡顿kǎ dùn(computing) slow; unresponsive; laggy
• 打顿dǎ dùnto pause
• 拉顿Lā dùnRodan (Japanese ラドン Radon), Japanese movie monster
• 断顿duàn dùnto go without meals (due to poverty or scarcity)
• 西顿Xī dùnSidon (Lebanon)
• 卡尔顿Kǎ ěr dùnCarleton
• 威灵顿Wēi líng dùnWellington, capital of New Zealand (Tw); Wellington (name)…

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.

• 纯chúnpure; simple; unmixed
• 吨dūnton (loanword); Taiwan pr. dùn
• 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 顿

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

• 续xùto continue; to replenish
• 领lǐngneck; collar; to lead
• 须xūmust; to have to; to wait
• 倾qīngto overturn; to collapse; to lean
• 帧zhēnframe; classifier for paintings etc; Taiwan pr. zhèng
• 钡bèibarium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read dùn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 盾shield; (currency) Vietnamese dong; currency unit of several countries…
• 钝blunt; stupid
• 炖to stew
• 遁to evade; to flee; to escape
• 囤bin for grain
• 沌used in 混沌
• 庉a village; to dwell together
• 砘(agriculture) to compact loose soil with a stone roller after sowing seeds…