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頓

dùn

pause, stop; bow, kowtow; arrange

Strokes
13
Radical
頁
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 顿

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 顿, the simplified form of 頓. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 她的脸顿时红了。

    Tā de liǎn dùn shí hóng le

    Her face turned red suddenly.

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  • 我刚到，让我安顿一下。

    Wǒ gāng dào ràng wǒ ān dùn yī xià

    I just got here, let me rest a bit.

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  • 要不我们找时间喝一顿。

    Yào bù wǒ men zhǎo shí jiān hē yī dùn

    Perhaps we could get a drink sometime.

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  • 我们午后吃了顿饭。

    Wǒ men wǔ hòu chī le dùn fàn

    We had a meal after noon.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 顿

  • 顿dùn 4to 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
  • 整顿zhěng dùn 3–4 to tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate; to rectify
  • 停顿tíng dùn 2–4 to halt; to break off; pause (in speech)
  • 顿时dùn shí 4–2 immediately; suddenly
  • 抑扬顿挫yì yáng dùn cuò 4–2–4–4see 顿挫抑扬