吨
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ton (loanword); Taiwan pr. [dun4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 口 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 噸
- Common rank
- #2,787
- Unicode
- U+5428
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 吨
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 等效百万吨当量 | equivalent megatonnage (EMT) | |
| 吨公里 | ton-kilometer (unit of capacity of transport system) | |
| 重量吨 | dead weight ton | |
| 百万吨 | megaton; million tons | |
| 总吨位 | overall tonnage (of a shipping fleet or company) | |
| 公吨 | ton; metric ton | |
| 吨数 | tonnage | |
| 吨位 | tonnage | |
| 千吨 | kiloton | |
| 吨级 | tonnage; class in tons (of a passenger ship) | |
| 英吨 | tonne; imperial or US tonne, equal to 2240 pounds or 1.016 metric tons | |
| 呫吨酮 | xanthone (chemistry) | |
| 呫吨 | xanthene (chemistry) | |
| 𪢠吨 | (old) London (now written 倫敦|伦敦[Lun2 dun1]) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 屯 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 屯 sound part | village, hamlet; camp; station | |
| 顿 | to pause; to bow; to arrange | |
| 纯 | pure, clean; simple, genuine | |
| 钝 | blunt, obtuse; dull, flat; dim-witted | |
| 炖 | stew; to cook stew | |
| 囤 | grain basket; to store, to hoard | |
| 沌 | chaotic, confused; murky, turbid | |
| 盹 | to doze, to nap, to nod off | |
| 砘 | a kind of farm tool | |
| 窀 | to bury | |
| 饨 | stuffed dumplings | |
| 肫 | gizzard; honest, sincere |