顿 - dùn - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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HSK 4 - Medium
13 strokes
Traditional (switch to Simplified)

頓 (顿)

dùn

Definition

classifier (for meals)
to pause
to settle
to stop
to arrange
to lay out
to stamp
measure word
suddenly
immediately

Character Decomposition

Compounds (1)

噸

dūn

ton (loanword); Taiwan pr. [dun4]

Related words (22)

頓悟

dùn wù

a flash of realization; the truth in a flash; a moment of enlightenment (usually Buddhist)

頓挫

dùn cuò

a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes; a cadence; punctuated by a transition; with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)

頓時

dùn shí

immediately; suddenly

suddenly; abruptly

to feel suddenly; to realize abruptly

stamp (one's feet)

kowtow

cadence; modulation

to halt; to break off; pause (in speech)

勞頓

láo dùn

fatigued; wearied (literary)

卡頓

kǎ dùn

(computing) slow; unresponsive

困頓

kùn dùn

fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken; in straitened circumstances

安頓

ān dùn

to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; undisturbed; peaceful

寄頓

jì dùn

to place in safe keeping; to leave sth with sb

to pause

to tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate; to rectify

inactive; obtuse

see 頓挫抑揚

to fling one's arms and stamp one's feet (in anger or despair)

travel-worn

travel-worn

to eat one's fill; to be full

Idioms (2)

捶胸頓足

chuí xiōng dùn zú

to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (idiom)

茅塞頓開

máo sè dùn kāi

murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear

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