DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

布雷頓森林

简布雷顿森林 · 繁布雷頓森林

Mandarin · pinyin Bù léi dùn Sēn lín

Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, location of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

布: bù · cotton cloth, textiles, linen
雷: léi · thunder
頓: Look up this written character
森: sēn · forest; luxuriant vegetation
林: lín · forest, grove; surname
顿: dùn · pause, stop; bow, kowtow; arrange

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–2–4–1–2 · Bu4 lei2 dun4 Sen1 lin2

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

布雷頓森林 · find source passages ↗ · 布雷顿森林 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗