敦 · dūn
esteem; honest, candid, sincere
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
esteem; honest, candid, sincere
- Mandarin
- dūn
- Cantonese
- deon1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 敦 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
トン ダン ドウ ジュ シュン タイ チョウ トウ あついKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 돈
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6566
- Radical
- 攴 · 66
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 敦
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- twoj · 都回 反切 · #373
- Middle Chinese
- twon · 都昆 反切 · #490
- Middle Chinese
- dwan · 度官 反切 · #528
- Middle Chinese
- twonH · 都困 反切 · #2611
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 3277 · twoj = 蟹合一平灰端 · twon = 臻合一平魂端 · dwan = 山合一平桓定 · twonH = 臻合一去魂端
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- dūn
- kCantonese
- deon1
- kDefinition
- esteem; honest, candid, sincere
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 66.8
- kGradeLevel
- 5
- kTGH
- 2013:2729
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- dūn,duī,tuán,diāo,dùn,dào,zhǔn,tūn,duì,tún 21468.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- duì 0273.040 · dūn 0276.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dūn 083.070
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- dūn粵deon1 duì粵deoi3 duī粵deoi1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 都回 都昆 度官 都困
- Kangxi positions
- 0473.080
- Guangyun positions
- 097.57 118.16 124.54 399.11
- GSR references
- 0464p
- Cangjie
- YDOK
- Four-corner
- 0844.0