盾

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shield (CL:面[mian4]); (currency) Vietnamese dong; currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc)

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

An eye 目 peering from behind a shield 厂

Components 厂十目

shield · Heisig RSH #1896

drag + 十 ten + eyeball

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
金盾工程	Jīn dùn Gōng chéng	Golden Shield Project, information system for censorship and surveillance, thought to incl…
以子之矛，攻子之盾	yǐ zǐ zhī máo , gōng zǐ zhī dùn	lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子\|韩非子); turning …
宙斯盾战斗系统	Zhòu sī dùn Zhàn dòu Xì tǒng	Aegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy)
人民内部矛盾	rén mín nèi bù máo dùn	internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge)
印尼盾	Yìn ní dùn	Indonesian rupiah
茅盾文学奖	Máo Dùn Wén xué jiǎng	Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982
越南盾	Yuè nán dùn	Vietnamese dong (currency)
盾牌座	Dùn pái zuò	Scutum (constellation)
防暴盾	fáng bào dùn	riot shield
人盾	rén dùn	human shield
盾构机	dùn gòu jī	tunnel boring machine
后盾	hòu dùn	support; backing
荷兰盾	Hé lán dùn	Dutch gulden
自相矛盾	zì xiāng máo dùn	to contradict oneself; self-contradictory; inconsistent
肉盾	ròu dùn	human shield; (gaming) tank; meat shield
内部矛盾	nèi bù máo dùn	internal contradiction
护盾	hù dùn	(historical weaponry) shield; (gaming, sci-fi) shield; damage-absorbing barrier; (fig.) pr…
盾牌	dùn pái	shield; pretext; excuse
陆港矛盾	Lù Gǎng máo dùn	tensions between mainland China and Hong Kong (since 1997)
敌我矛盾	dí wǒ máo dùn	contradictions between ourselves and the enemy; Either you are for us or against us.

These characters use 盾 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
盾 sound part	dùn	shield; Dutch guilder
循	xún	to obey, to follow, to comply with