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屯

Mandarin · pinyin tún#

to station (soldiers)
to store up
village

Mandarin · pinyin zhūn#

used in 屯邅 zhūn zhān

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屯: tún · village, hamlet; camp; station; hexagram ䷂

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2 · tun2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

seon4 · tyun4 · zeon1

Cantonese word readings for 屯. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character · Etymology 1

village; hamlet
(literary, or in compounds) military camp
to store up; to accumulate
(literary, or in compounds) to station (troops)
䷂,third hexagram of the I Ching
(obsolete) mound; hill
(Hong Kong) short for 屯門／屯门 (Túnmén, “Tuen Mun”)

character · Etymology 2

used in 屯邅 (zhūnzhān)

character · Etymology 3

only used in 屯留 (Chúnliú)

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