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顿

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to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal

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HSK 3.0
Level 3
Old HSK
Level 5
Strokes
10
Radical
頁 +4
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
頓
Common rank
#792
Unicode
U+987F

Sound it out + =

Formation & memory

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How 顿 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

页 meaning “head” + 屯 sound ( tún )

Components 屯 页

How to remember it

pause · Heisig RSH #2544

earthworm + head

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 顿

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

WordPinyinMeaning
普林斯顿大学 Pǔ lín sī dùn Dà xué Princeton University
波士顿大学 Bō shì dùn Dà xué Boston University
牛顿力学 Niú dùn lì xué Newtonian mechanics
道尔顿 Dào ěr dùn Dalton (name); John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
打顿儿 dǎ dùn r erhua variant of 打頓|打顿[da3 dun4]
阿普尔顿 Ā pǔ ěr dùn Appleton (name); Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who di…
马其顿共和国 Mǎ qí dùn Gòng hé guó Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslav republic)
阿斯顿·马丁 Ā sī dùn · Mǎ dīng Aston Martin
普林斯顿 Pǔ lín sī dùn Princeton, New Jersey
克林顿 Kè lín dùn Clinton (name); Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001; Hilla…
卡尔顿 Kǎ ěr dùn Carleton
德雷斯顿 Dé léi sī dùn Dresden, Germany
查尔斯顿 Chá ěr sī dùn Charleston
布里奇顿 Bù lǐ qí dùn Bridgetown, capital of Barbados
米尔顿 Mǐ ěr dùn Milton (name); John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Para…
希拉里·克林顿 Xī lā lǐ · Kè lín dùn Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
温布尔顿 Wēn bù ěr dùn Wimbledon
伊顿公学 Yī dùn gōng xué Eton public school (English elite school)
北马其顿 Běi Mǎ qí dùn North Macedonia
哈米吉多顿 Hā mǐ jí duō dùn Armageddon (in Revelation 16:16)

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 屯 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
屯 sound part tún village, hamlet; camp; station
纯 chún pure, clean; simple, genuine
吨 dūn a metric ton
钝 dùn blunt, obtuse; dull, flat; dim-witted
炖 dùn stew; to cook stew
囤 tún grain basket; to store, to hoard
沌 dùn chaotic, confused; murky, turbid
盹 dǔn to doze, to nap, to nod off
砘 dùn a kind of farm tool
窀 zhūn to bury
饨 tún stuffed dumplings
肫 zhūn gizzard; honest, sincere