頓 (dùn)
Measure word for meals or scoldings; to pause
How 頓 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 十 — ten
- Traditional
- 頓
- Simplified
- 顿
Components
- 十 ten
- 屮 sprout
- 乚 second
- 頁 leaf
Common words using 頓
- 頓時 dùnshí
- immediately; suddenly
- 停頓 tíngdùn
- to halt; to break off; pause (in speech)
- 勞頓 láodùn
- fatigued; wearied (literary)
- 困頓 kùndùn
- fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken
- 安頓 āndùn
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for
- 希爾頓 xīěrdùn
- Hilton (hotel chain)
- 捶胸頓足 chuíxiōngdùnzú
- to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (idiom)
- 整頓 zhěngdùn
- to tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate
- 曼哈頓 mànhādùn
- Manhattan island; Manhattan borough of New York City
- 波士頓 bōshìdùn
- Boston, capital of Massachusetts
- 頓悟 dùnwù
- a flash of realization; the truth in a flash; a moment of enlightenment (usually Buddhist)
- 頓覺 dùnjué
- to feel suddenly; to realize abruptly
頓 in a sentence
我請你吃一頓飯。
Wǒ qǐng nǐ chī yí dùn fàn.
“I'll treat you to a meal.”
How common is 頓?
頓 is the 792nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.2% of all running text.
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