墩
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block; gate pillar; pier; classifier for clusters of plants; classifier for rounds in a card game: trick; (archaic) watchtower
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 土 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 墩
- Common rank
- #2,731
- Unicode
- U+58A9
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Formation & memory
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Words with 墩
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 菜墩子 | chopping block | |
| 墩子 | squat block (of stone, wood etc); ottoman; pouf | |
| 屁墩儿 | (dialect) a fall on the buttocks | |
| 门墩 | wooden or stone block supporting the axle of a door | |
| 墩布 | swab; mop; CL:把[ba3] | |
| 胖墩儿 | (coll.) short, fat person (esp. a kid); a roly-poly | |
| 坐墩 | Chinese drum-shaped stool | |
| 桥墩 | bridge pier | |
| 冰墩墩 | Bing Dwen Dwen (mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, a panda wearing a bodysuit of … | |
| 肥墩墩 | exceedingly obese | |
| 拱墩 | pillar of a vault | |
| 矮墩墩 | pudgy; dumpy; stumpy | |
| 绣墩 | see 坐墩[zuo4 dun1] | |
| 胖墩墩 | short and stout; heavy-set |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 敦 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 敦 sound part | honest, candid, sincere; kind-hearted; to esteem | |
| 憝 | to dislike; to abhor, to hate | |
| 暾 | sunrise, the morning sun | |
| 礅 | stone block | |
| 镦 | ferrule; to castrate |