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盾

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

9 strokes 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

components: 厂 十 目

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:

CharacterPinyinMeaning
盾 sound component dùn shield; Dutch guilder
循 xún to obey, to follow, to comply with

Words containing 盾

WordPinyinMeaning
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.