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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Dict coverage rank #2,172 U+76FE
How 盾 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
An eye 目 peering from behind a shield 厂
How to remember it
shield · Heisig RSH #1896
drag + 十 ten + eyeball
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 盾 as their sound component
These characters all use 盾 (dùn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 盾 sound component | dùn | shield; Dutch guilder |
| 循 | xún | to obey, to follow, to comply with |
Words containing 盾
| 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. |