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顿

dùn

to bow, pause

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 屯 represents the sound. Simplified form of 頓.

Components
屯 sound component

屯  Sound component

tún, zhūn

  

village

页 meaning component

页  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

page

Depicts bowing the head.

Evolution

顿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
顿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
顿 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
顿 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

顿 (頓) 

dùn

pause, stop; bow, kowtow; arrange; to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal

Most common words with 顿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

顿

to stop

华盛顿

Washington (name)

顿时

immediately

整顿

to tidy up

波士顿

Boston, capital of Massachusetts

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 43.8571% of movies

682nd most common character in movies

794th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

頓

Unicode

U+987F


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