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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)

顿然
dùnrán
suddenly
雪顿
Xuědùn
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
安顿
āndùn
to find a place for
顿河
DùnHé
Don River
顿首
dùnshǒu
kowtow
打顿
dǎdùn
to pause
顿足
dùnzú
stamp (one's feet)
代顿
Dàidùn
Dayton (city in Ohio)
拉顿
Lādùn
Rodan (Japanese [[ラドン]] Radon), Japanese movie monster
劳顿
láodùn
fatigued
整顿
zhěngdùn
to tidy up
HSK 6
寄顿
jìdùn
to place in safe keeping
迟顿
chídùn
inactive
顿时
dùnshí
immediately
HSK 6
牛顿
Niúdùn
Newton (name)
西顿
Xīdùn
Sidon (Lebanon)
莱顿
Láidùn
Leiden (the Netherlands)
顿挫
dùncuò
a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes
停顿
tíngdùn
to halt
HSK 6
沃顿
Wòdùn
Wharton (name)

Metadata

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

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