遁

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to evade; to flee; to escape

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

To escape 辶 to shelter 盾; 盾 also provides the pronunciation

Components 辶盾

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
遁入空门	dùn rù kōng mén	to take refuge in religious life
奇门遁甲	qí mén dùn jiǎ	Qimen Dunjia, an ancient system of occult arts used for divination and strategic planning
闻风先遁	wén fēng xiān dùn	to flee at hearing the news (idiom)
遁形	dùn xíng	to vanish; to hide; to cover one's traces
隐遁	yǐn dùn	to disappear from view; to live in seclusion
逃遁	táo dùn	to escape; to disappear
尿遁	niào dùn	(slang) pretext of needing to urinate (used to slip away to avoid having to do sth)