dùn

to bow, pause

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
屯 sound component

  Sound component

túnzhūn

  

village

頁 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

(head), page

Depicts bowing the head.

Evolution

頓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
頓 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
頓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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dùn

pause, stop; bow, kowtow; arrange; 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

Most common words with 頓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to stop

华盛顿

Washington (name)

顿时

immediately

整顿

to tidy up

波士顿

Boston, capital of Massachusetts

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 43.8571% of movies

682nd most common character in movies

794th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+9813

Shuowen

“頓,下首也。从頁,屯聲。”


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