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dùn

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dùn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dùn | dun4
English translation
to pause; to bow; to arrange

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About dùn

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

dùn

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

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Etymology of dùn

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

屯頁

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

tún

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and tún represents the sound. Simplified form of dùn .

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Words with dùn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
dùn to stop dùn
华盛顿 Huá shèng dùn Washington (name)華盛頓
顿时 dùnshí immediately頓時
整顿 zhěngdùn to tidy up整頓
波士顿 Bō shì dùn Boston, capital of Massachusetts波士頓
曼哈顿 Màn hā dùn Manhattan island曼哈頓
克林顿 Kè lín dùn Clinton (name)克林頓
停顿 tíngdùn to halt停頓
安顿 ān dùn to find a place for安頓
休斯顿 Xiū sī dùn Houston休斯頓
牛顿 Niú dùn Newton (name)牛頓
普林斯顿 Pǔ lín sī dùn Princeton, New Jersey普林斯頓
马其顿 Mǎ qí dùn Macedonia馬其頓
汉密尔顿 Hàn mì ěr dùn Hamilton (name)漢密爾頓
华盛顿邮报 Huá shèng dùn Yóu bào Washington Post (newspaper)華盛頓郵報
希尔顿 Xī ěr dùn Hilton (hotel chain)希爾頓
博尔顿 Bó ěr dùn Bolton (name)博爾頓
温斯顿 Wēn sī dùn Winston (name)溫斯頓
霍顿 Huò dùn Hotton, Holden, Wharton, Houghton etc (name)霍頓
顿悟 dùn wù a flash of realization頓悟
查尔斯顿 Chá ěr sī dùn Charleston查爾斯頓

dùn Decomposition & Compounds

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