dùn

measure word for meals, blows; to pause

Character data

Radical ⾴ (181.4)
Strokes 13
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

頓 dùn
  1. 1. classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
  2. 2. to pause
  3. 3. to stop
  4. 4. at once
  5. 5. to stamp (one's foot)
  6. 6. to arrange
  7. 7. to lay out
  8. 8. to kowtow

Words containing 頓

Word Meaning
Boston, capital of Massachusetts
Boston University
Boston Red Sox (baseball) team
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian classical composer
Wimbledon
Wimbledon
Winston (name)
Hamilton (name); Hamilton, capital of Bermuda
newton (SI unit of force)
Newtonian mechanics
newton meter, unit of torque (symbol: N⋅m)
Trenton, capital of New Jersey
Johnston (name)
to fling one's arms and stamp one's feet (in anger or despair)
Lipton (name)
Milton (name)
Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
travel-worn
Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada
Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist
murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
Washington, D.C. (US federal capital); Washington (name)
Washington, US State
Washington Times (newspaper)
Washington D.C. (US federal capital)