钝
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blunt; stupid
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 金 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鈍
- Common rank
- #2,981
- Unicode
- U+949D
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 钝
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 成败利钝 | succeed or fail, sharp or blunt (idiom); advantages and disadvantages; success and failure… | |
| 钝化 | (chemistry) to passivate | |
| 钝器 | blunt instrument (used as a weapon) | |
| 钝角 | obtuse angle | |
| 思想顽钝 | blunt thinking; apathy | |
| 味觉迟钝 | amblygeustia; loss of food taste | |
| 钝翅苇莺 | (bird species of China) blunt-winged warbler (Acrocephalus concinens) | |
| 鲁钝 | stupid; slow on the uptake | |
| 迟钝 | slow in one's reactions; sluggish (in movement or thought) | |
| 愚钝 | stupid; slow-witted | |
| 顽钝 | blunt (instrument); stupid; thick-headed | |
| 驽钝 | (literary) dull; slow-witted |
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 | |
| 吨 | a metric ton | |
| 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 |