Dong Chinese dictionary

tún, zhūn

village

Original meaning:

sprout

Depicts a recently germinated plant. Based on the original meaning "sprout". The meaning later expanded to "gather", "guard", "station", and "village".

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

屯

tún

village, hamlet; camp; station; to station (soldiers); to store up; village

屯

zhūn

difficult; stingy

Most common words with 屯

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	屯	village
	三里屯	Sanlitun (Beijing street name)
	屯溪	Tunxi district of Huangshan city 黃山市\|黄山市[Huángshānshì], Anhui
	奎屯	Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州\|伊犁哈萨克自治州[YīlíHāsàkèzìzhìzhōu], Xinjiang
	苏家屯区	Sujiatun district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市\|沈阳市, Liaoning