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See also: 顿
頓 U+9813, 頓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9813
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[U+9812] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 頔 →
[U+9814]

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, 𰔫, 𦡋, 𲆁, 𦼿

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

Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 頓, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (屯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Etymology 1

“tired”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-t(u/i)l (“buttocks; heel; dull; blunt; rounded part”); cognate with Tibetan རྟུལ (rtul, “dull”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2014).

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Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • tùn - literary;
  • tǹg/tùiⁿ - vernacular (“to stamp the ground (Mainland China); classifier for meals; meal; to stamp; to strike; to fall on one's buttocks; to place a heavy object on a flat platform; to have a trial of strength”).
  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

頓

  1. to strike downwards to a surface:
    1. (literary) to kowtow
      頓首／顿首  ―  dùnshǒu  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    2. to stamp the ground
      捶胸頓足／捶胸顿足  ―  chuíxiōngdùnzú  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    3. (Southern Min) to fall on one's buttocks
    4. (Southern Min) to stamp; to affix (a seal)
  2. to settle; to halt:
    1. (Southern Min) to place a heavy object on a flat platform
    2. to arrange; to settle
      安頓／安顿  ―  āndùn  ―  to settle
      整頓／整顿  ―  zhěngdùn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    3. to pause
      停頓／停顿  ―  tíngdùn  ―  to pause
  3. Other verb uses:
    1. to pull
    2. (Hakka) to hit; to bump into with elbow
    3. (Southern Min) to strike; to beat; to hit
    4. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to have a trial of strength or skill; to have a contest; to compete with
  4. Classifier for meals.
    一頓飯／一顿饭  ―  yī dùn fàn  ―  a meal
    三頓／三顿 [Hokkien]  ―  saⁿ-tǹg [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  three meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)
  5. (Southern Min) meal
    暗頓／暗顿 [Hokkien]  ―  àm-tǹg [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  dinner
  6. Classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.
    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.
  7. suddenly; abruptly; all of the sudden
    茅塞頓開／茅塞顿开  ―  máosèdùnkāi  ―  to be enlightened all of a sudden
  8. tired; weary; fatigued; exhausted; strained
    勞頓／劳顿  ―  láodùn  ―  weary; weariness
  9. Used in transcription.
    頓巴斯／顿巴斯  ―  Dùnbāsī  ―  Donbas
    帕丁頓／帕丁顿  ―  Pàdīngdùn  ―  Paddington
    伊頓／伊顿  ―  Yīdùn  ―  Eton
    萊辛頓大道／莱辛顿大道  ―  Láixīndùn dàdào  ―  Lexington Avenue
    嘉頓／嘉顿 [Cantonese]  ―  gaa1 deon6 [Jyutping]  ―  Garden (Hong Kong bakery)
  10. a surname, Dun
Synonyms
  • (to pause):
  • (classifier for meals):
Dialectal synonyms of 頓 (“(classifier for meals)”) [map]
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  • (classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.):
Dialectal synonyms of 頓 (“(classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.)”) [map]
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  • (suddenly):
  • (tired):
Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

頓

  1. (Mainland China Hokkien) to place somewhere for a short period of time to produce some effect

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

頓

  1. used in 冒頓／冒顿 (Mòdú)
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Japanese

Kanji

頓

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to kowtow
  2. to rest, to stay, to abide
  3. suddenly

Readings

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

Compounds

References

Korean

Hanja

頓 • (don, dun) (hangeul 돈, 둔)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頓: Hán Nôm readings: đốn, đón, nhún, dún, đon, đún, lún, rón

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