顿
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
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #792 U+987F
How 顿 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
页 (semantic, “head”) + 屯 (phonetic, tún)
How to remember it
pause · Heisig RSH #2544
earthworm + head
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 屯
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 屯 (tún) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 屯 sound component | 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 |
Words containing 顿
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |