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Mythic Mandarin

顿 (dùn): meaning and stroke order

顿 (dùn) means to stop, to pause, to arrange, to lay out, to kowtow, to stamp (one's foot), at once.

顿

Simplified
顿
Traditional
頓
Pinyin
dùn

Stroke order of 顿

顿

  • dùn to stop; to pause
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 頓

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 顿

  1. dùn Traditional 頓
    • 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

Radical and structure

顿
Radical 页 (Kangxi radical 181) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 屯 on the left, 页 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.

顿 in our stories

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  • 马修愣住了，然后哈哈大笑，把筷子一放，认真地对王总说：“王总，这顿饭，我恐怕要吃到明年了！”

    Mǎxiū lèng zhù le ránhòu hāhā dà xiào bǎ kuàizi yí fàng rènzhēn de duì Wáng zǒng shuō Wáng zǒng zhè dùn fàn wǒ kǒngpà yào chī dào míngnián le

    Matthew froze, then roared with laughter, put down his chopsticks and said solemnly to Mr Wang, "Mr Wang, I'm afraid I'd have been eating this meal until next year!"

    From the story The banquet that never ended HSK 6

Stories using 顿

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).