頓
See also: 顿
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Translingual
Han character
頓 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 心山一月金 (PUMBC), four-corner 51786, composition ⿰屯頁)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 1401, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43381
- Dae Jaweon: page 1918, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4360, character 5
- Unihan data for U+9813
Chinese
| trad. | 頓 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 顿 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 頓 | |
|---|---|
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (屯) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 躉 | *tuːnʔ |
| 窀 | *rduːn, *duːn, *tun |
| 沌 | *donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ |
| 盹 | *tuːnʔ, *tjuns |
| 頓 | *tuːns |
| 扽 | *tuːns |
| 黗 | *tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ |
| 吨 | *tʰuːnʔ |
| 屯 | *duːn, *tun |
| 飩 | *duːn |
| 豘 | *duːn |
| 軘 | *duːn |
| 坉 | *duːn |
| 邨 | *duːn, *stʰuːn |
| 忳 | *duːn |
| 芚 | *duːn |
| 庉 | *duːn, *duːnʔ |
| 囤 | *duːnʔ |
| 迍 | *tun |
| 杶 | *tʰun |
| 瑃 | *tʰun |
| 椿 | *tʰun |
| 偆 | *tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ |
| 肫 | *tjun |
| 訰 | *tjun, *tjuns |
| 純 | *tjunʔ, *djun |
| 春 | *tʰjun |
| 蠢 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 踳 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 惷 | *tʰjunʔ |
| 蒓 | *djun |
| 賰 | *hljunʔ |
| 鬊 | *hljuns |
Etymology 1
- “tired”
- From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-t(u/i)l (“buttocks; heel; dull; blunt; rounded part”); cognate with Tibetan རྟུལ (rtul, “dull”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2014).
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Pronunciation
Definitions
頓
- to pause
- to arrange; to handle; to deal with
- to stamp the ground
- (literary) to kowtow
- Classifier for meals.
- Classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.
- suddenly; abruptly; all of the sudden
- tired; weary; fatigued; exhausted; strained
- (Min Nan) meal
- 三頓/三顿 [Hokkien] ― saⁿ-tǹg [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― three meals of the day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)
- 暗頓/暗顿 [Hokkien] ― àm-tǹg [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― dinner
- (Hakka) to hit; to bump into with elbow
- a surname: Dun
Synonyms
- (to pause):
Synonyms of 頓
- (classifier for meals):
Dialectal synonyms of 頓 (“(classifier for meals)”) [map]
- (classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.):
Dialectal synonyms of 頓 (“(classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.)”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 頓 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 頓 |
| Taiwan | 頓 | |
| Jinan | 頓 | |
| Xi'an | 頓 | |
| Wuhan | 頓 | |
| Chengdu | 頓 | |
| Yangzhou | 頓 | |
| Hefei | 頓 | |
| Singapore | 頓 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 餐 |
| Hong Kong | 餐 | |
| Yangjiang | 餐 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 餐 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 頓 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 頓 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 頓 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 回 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 睏 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 頓 |
| Wenzhou | 套 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 餐 |
| Shuangfeng | 餐 | |
- (suddenly):
Synonyms of 頓
- (tired):
Compounds
Derived terms from 頓
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Pronunciation
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
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