顿 dùn

pause, stop; bow, kowtow; arrange

HSK 5 #794

DEFINITIONS

  • pause, stop
  • bow, kowtow
  • arrange
  • to stop
  • to pause
  • to arrange
  • to lay out
  • to kowtow
  • to stamp (one's foot)
  • at once
  • classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal

STROKES

顿 stroke order diagram
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WORDS

道尔顿 dào ěr dùn Dalton (name); John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
代顿 dài dùn Dayton (city in Ohio)
米尔顿 mǐ ěr dùn Milton (name); John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost
曼哈顿区 màn hā dùn qū Manhattan borough of New York City
莱顿 lái dùn Leiden (the Netherlands)
西顿 xī dùn Sidon (Lebanon)
海顿 hǎi dùn Haydn (name); Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian classical composer
温布尔顿 wēn bù ěr dùn Wimbledon
特伦顿 tè lún dùn Trenton, capital of New Jersey
约翰斯顿 yuē hàn sī dùn Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
茅塞顿开 máo sè dùn kāi murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
霍顿 huò dùn Hotton, Holden, Wharton, Houghton etc (name)
劳顿 láo dùn (literary) fatigued; wearied
德累斯顿 dé lèi sī dùn Dresden, capital of Saxony 薩克森州|萨克森州[Sa4 ke4 sen1 zhou1], Germany
蒙巴顿 méng bā dùn Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg); Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.
顿河 dùn hé Don River
困顿 kùn dùn fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken; in straitened circumstances
抑扬顿挫 yì yáng dùn cuò see 頓挫抑揚|顿挫抑扬[dun4 cuo4 yi4 yang2]
捶胸顿足 chuí xiōng dùn zú to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (idiom)
卡顿 kǎ dùn (computing) slow; unresponsive
哈米吉多顿 hā mǐ jí duō dùn Armageddon (in Revelation 16:16)
布里奇顿 bù lǐ qí dùn Bridgetown, capital of Barbados
哈利伯顿 hā lì bó dùn Halliburton (US construction company)
顿觉 dùn jué to feel suddenly; to realize abruptly
亨丁顿舞蹈症 hēng dīng dùn wǔ dào zhèng Huntington's disease
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