頓
简 顿 · 繁 頓Meanings · deon6
- to stop
- to pause
- to arrange
- to lay out
- to kowtow
- bow
- to stamp (one's foot)
- at once
- classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
- suddenly
- immediately
- promptly
- to nod
- to settle
- to put in order
Meanings · duk6
- part of a name
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 頓 dùn CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto 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
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: dun4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 41 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
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deon6 · duk6
Cantonese word readings for 頓. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — to bow (one's head) to the ground, kowtow
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — to stamp (one's foot)
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — (dated or Hokkien) to knock, beat, pound
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to have a trial of strength or skill, have a contest, compete with
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — (Hakka) to bump into with one's elbow
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — (Hakka) to pound downwards forcefully
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — (dated or Hokkien) to set down (an object) heavily
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — (literary) to fall down, collapse; (Hokkien, specifically) to fall on one's buttocks
- Denotes motion of force against a surface: — (Hokkien) to stamp, affix (a seal)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to descend, go down
- (literary) to be ruined, decay
- tired, weary, fatigued, exhausted, strained
- (literary) to abandon, discard
- (literary) to dispel, eliminate
- to shake, jolt
- (dated) to pull, tug; to fling off
- Denotes settling or pause: — (now in compounds) to arrange, settle, place
- Denotes settling or pause: — to place, put
- Denotes settling or pause: — (Mainland China Hokkien) to place somewhere for a short period of time to produce some effect
- Denotes settling or pause: — to pause
- Denotes settling or pause: — (literary) (alt. form 屯) to encamp, station troops
- Denotes settling or pause: — (dated) to stay, linger
- Denotes settling or pause: — (literary) resting station, lodging, inn
- Denotes settling or pause: — (literary) lodging provisions
- Denotes settling or pause: — (calligraphy, painting) press and pause
- Denotes settling or pause: — (prosody) slight pause in reading a sentence
- Denotes settling or pause: — (prosody) metrical foot
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) confused, chaotic
- suddenly, abruptly, all of the sudden
- (literary) at once, simultaneously
- (literary) entirely, all
- (literary) absolutely, completely
- (Buddhism) short for 頓悟／顿悟 (dùnwù, “epiphany”)
- (Buddhism) short for 頓教／顿教 (“sudden teaching”)
- Classifier for meals.
- (Hokkien) meal
- Classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.: bout
- (～國) A former state of Western Zhou, now between Xiangcheng and Shangshui in Zhoukou, Henan, China
- a surname, Dun
- Used in transcription.
character · Etymology 2
- only used in 冒頓／冒顿 (Mòdú)
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