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顿
頓
dùn
1. to stop
2. to pause
3. to arrange
4. to lay out
5. to kowtow
6. to stamp (one's foot)
7. at once
8. classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
HSK 5 Very Common • Top 1%

Character Breakdown (Single character)

顿
dùn
to pause; to bow; to arrange
HSK 5 10 丶

Compound Words (20)

代顿
Dàidùn
Dayton (city in Ohio)
停顿
tíngdùn
to halt
HSK 6
劳顿
láodùn
fatigued
困顿
kùndùn
fatigued
安顿
āndùn
to find a place for
寄顿
jìdùn
to place in safe keeping
打顿
dǎdùn
to pause
拉顿
Lādùn
Rodan (Japanese [[ラドン]] Radon), Japanese movie monster
整顿
zhěngdùn
to tidy up
HSK 6
沃顿
Wòdùn
Wharton (name)
海顿
Hǎidùn
Haydn (name)
牛顿
Niúdùn
Newton (name)
立顿
Lìdùn
Lipton (name)
莱顿
Láidùn
Leiden (the Netherlands)
西顿
Xīdùn
Sidon (Lebanon)
迟顿
chídùn
inactive
雪顿
Xuědùn
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
霍顿
Huòdùn
Hotton, Holden, Wharton, Houghton etc (name)
顿悟
dùnwù
a flash of realization
顿挫
dùncuò
a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
5
Character Frequency Rank
793
Word Frequency Rank
695 of 84,292

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