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Mythic Mandarin

盹 (dǔn): meaning and stroke order

盹 (dǔn) means doze, nap.

盹

Simplified
盹
Traditional
盹 (same form)
Pinyin
dǔn

Stroke order of 盹

盹

  • dǔn doze; nap
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 盹

  1. dǔn
    • doze
    • nap

Radical and structure

盹
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · 目 on the left, 屯 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

盹 in our stories

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  • 没想到，午时三刻，魏征趴在棋盘上打了个盹——在梦里，他已经斩了龙王。

    méi xiǎngdào wǔshí sān kè Wèi Zhēng pā zài qípán shàng dǎ le gè dǔn zài mèng lǐ tā yǐjīng zhǎn le Lóngwáng

    But at a quarter past the hour of the Horse, Wei Zheng dozed off over the chessboard, and in his dream he beheaded the Dragon King.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 盹

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).