頓

See also: 顿

Translingual

Han character

頓 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 心山一月金 (PUMBC), four-corner 5178₆, composition ⿰屯頁)

Derived characters

• 噸

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1401, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43381
• Dae Jaweon: page 1918, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4360, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9813

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Chinese

trad.		頓
simp.		顿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 頓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (屯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
躉	*tuːnʔ
窀	*rduːn, *duːn, *tun
沌	*donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ
盹	*tuːnʔ, *tjuns
頓	*tuːns
扽	*tuːns
黗	*tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ
吨	*tʰuːnʔ
屯	*duːn, *tun
飩	*duːn
豘	*duːn
軘	*duːn
坉	*duːn
邨	*duːn, *stʰuːn
忳	*duːn
芚	*duːn
庉	*duːn, *duːnʔ
囤	*duːnʔ
迍	*tun
杶	*tʰun
瑃	*tʰun
椿	*tʰun
偆	*tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ
肫	*tjun
訰	*tjun, *tjuns
純	*tjunʔ, *djun
春	*tʰjun
蠢	*tʰjunʔ
踳	*tʰjunʔ
惷	*tʰjunʔ
蒓	*djun
賰	*hljunʔ
鬊	*hljuns

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 頓

1. to pause
2. to arrange
3. to stamp the ground
4. Classifier for meals and occurrences of an event.

   真的想把他揍一頓。 [MSC, trad.]
   真的想把他揍一顿。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhēnde xiǎng bǎ tā zòu yī dùn. [Pinyin]

   I really want to give them a beating.

5. (Teochew) meal
6. suddenly
7. (Hakka) to hit; to bump into with elbow

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dú (du²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dú
    • Wade–Giles: tu²
    • Yale: dú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwu
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: duk⁶
    • Yale: duhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 頓

1. Only used in 冒頓／冒顿 (Mòdú).

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

頓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: とん (ton, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: とん (ton, Jōyō)
• Kun: とみに (tomini, 頓に); ぬかずく (nukazuku, 頓ずく); つまずく (tsumazuku, 頓く)

Compounds

Compounds

• 頓死(とんし) (tonshi): sudden death
• 頓写(とんしゃ) (tonsha) quickly copying something; dead memorial service where many gather to transcribe a sutra in one day

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Korean

Hanja

頓 • (don, dun) (hangeul 돈, 둔)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 頓 (đốn, đón, nhún, dún, đon, đún, lún, rón)

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