頓

頓

See also: 顿

頓 U+9813, 頓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9813 ← 頒 [U+9812] CJK Unified Ideographs 頔 → [U+9814]

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

• 噸

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

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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

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).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dùn (dun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): deon⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tun
• Min Bei (KCR): dō̤ng
• Min Dong (BUC): dóng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tùn / tǹg / tùiⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): deng³

• Wu (Wiktionary): ten (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dùn
    • Wade–Giles: tun⁴
    • Yale: dwùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duenn
    • Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /twən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: deon⁶
    • Yale: deuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɵn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tun
    • Hakka Romanization System: dun
    • Hagfa Pinyim: dun⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tun⁵⁵/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: dō̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dóng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /touŋ²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tùn
    • Tâi-lô: tùn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: duxn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /tun²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tun¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǹg
    • Tâi-lô: tǹg
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dngx
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /tŋ̍²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tŋ̍¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tŋ̍⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tùiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tuìnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvuix
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tuĩ²¹/

Note:

• tùn - literary;
• tǹg/tùiⁿ - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: deng³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tṳ̀ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɯŋ²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: ten (T2)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /təɲ³⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 頓
Mandarin	Beijing	/tuən⁵¹/
	Harbin	/tuən⁵³/
	Tianjin	/tuən⁵³/
	Jinan	/tuẽ²¹/
	Qingdao	/tuə̃⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/tuən³¹²/
	Xi'an	/tuẽ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/tuə̃²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/tuŋ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/tũn¹³/
	Ürümqi	/tuŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/tən³⁵/
	Chengdu	/tən¹³/
	Guiyang	/ten²¹³/
	Kunming	/tuə̃²¹²/
	Nanjing	/tun⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/tən⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/tuəŋ⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/tuŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/tũŋ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/təŋ³⁵/
	Suzhou	/tən⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/ten⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/taŋ⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/tʌ̃³²⁴/
	Tunxi	/tuːə⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/tən⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/tən⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/tɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/tun³¹/
	Taoyuan	/tun³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/tøn²²/
	Nanning	/tɐn²²/
	Hong Kong	/tøn²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/tun²¹/ /tŋ̍²¹/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/touŋ²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/tɔŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/tuŋ³⁵/ /tɯŋ²¹³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ʔdun³⁵/ /ʔdun⁵⁵/ /ʔdui³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /tuən^H/

Rime
Character	頓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	都困切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuənH/
Pan Wuyun	/tuonH/
Shao Rongfen	/tuənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/twənH/
Li Rong	/tuənH/
Wang Li	/tuənH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	deon3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tuːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	頓
Reading #	1/1
No.	12541
Phonetic component	屯
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	頓
Old Chinese	/*tuːns/

Definitions

頓

1. to pause

   停頓／停顿  ―  tíngdùn  ―  to pause

2. to arrange; to handle; to deal with

   安頓／安顿  ―  āndùn  ―  to arrange for; to get everything settled

3. to stamp the ground
4. (literary) to kowtow
5. Classifier for meals.

   一頓飯／一顿饭  ―  yī dùn fàn  ―  a meal

6. Classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.

   真的想把他揍一頓。 [MSC, trad.]
   真的想把他揍一顿。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhēnde xiǎng bǎ tā zòu yī dùn. [Pinyin]

   I really want to give them a beating.

7. suddenly; abruptly; all of the sudden

   茅塞頓開／茅塞顿开  ―  máosàidùnkāi  ―  to be enlightened all of a sudden

8. tired; weary; fatigued; exhausted; strained

   困頓／困顿  ―  kùndùn  ―  exhausted

9. (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

10. (Hakka) to hit; to bump into with elbow
11. a surname: Dun

Synonyms

• (to pause):

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Synonyms of 頓

中止 (zhōngzhǐ) 休止 (xiūzhǐ) 停 (tíng) 停歇 (tíngxiē) 停止 (tíngzhǐ) 放煞 (Min Nan) 止 (zhǐ) (literary, or in compounds) 止息 (zhǐxī)

止煞 (Min Nan) 煞 (Min Nan) 甘休 (gānxiū) (to be willing to give up) 干休 (gānxiū) (literary) 中斷／中断 (zhōngduàn) 夭閼／夭阏 (yǎo'è) 斷站／断站 (Min Nan)

斷節／断节 (Min Nan) 暫停／暂停 (zàntíng) (temporarily) 終止／终止 (zhōngzhǐ) 絕／绝 (jué) (literary, or in compounds) 罷休／罢休 (bàxiū) (chiefly in the negative) 罷手／罢手 (bàshǒu) 間斷／间断 (jiànduàn)

• (classifier for meals):

Dialectal synonyms of 頓 (“(classifier for meals)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		頓
Mandarin	Beijing	頓
	Taiwan	頓
	Yantai (Muping)	頓
	Jinan	頓
	Wanrong	頓
	Xi'an	頓
	Yinchuan	頓
	Ürümqi	頓
	Wuhan	頓, 餐
	Chengdu	頓
	Guiyang	頓
	Liuzhou	餐
	Xuzhou	頓
	Yangzhou	頓
	Nanjing	頓
	Hefei	頓
	Singapore	餐
Cantonese	Guangzhou	餐
	Hong Kong	餐
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	餐
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	餐
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	餐
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	餐
	Macau	餐
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	餐
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	餐
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	餐
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	餐
	Foshan	餐
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	餐
	Foshan (Shunde)	餐
	Foshan (Sanshui)	餐
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	餐
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	餐
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	餐
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	餐
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	餐
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	餐
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	餐
	Taishan	餐
	Kaiping (Chikan)	餐
	Enping (Niujiang)	餐
	Heshan (Yayao)	餐
	Dongguan	餐
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	餐
	Yangjiang	餐
	Danzhou	餐
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	餐
	Singapore (Guangfu)	餐
Gan	Nanchang	餐
	Lichuan	餐
	Pingxiang	餐
Hakka	Meixian	餐
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	餐
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	餐
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	餐
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	餐
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	餐
	Wengyuan	餐
	Liannan	餐
	Conghua (Lütian)	餐
	Jiexi	餐
	Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)	頓
	Changting	餐
	Wuping (Yanqian)	餐
	Ninghua	餐
	Yudu	餐
	Ningdu	餐
	Tonggu (Sandu)	餐
	Ganzhou (Panlong)	餐
	Dayu	餐
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	餐
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	餐
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	餐
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	餐
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	餐
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	頓
	Hong Kong	餐
	Yangxi (Tangkou)	餐
	Yangchun (Sanjia)	餐
	Xinyi (Sihe)	餐
	Xinyi (Qianpai)	餐
	Gaozhou (Xindong)	餐
	Maoming (Shalang, Dianbai)	餐
	Huazhou (Xin'an)	餐
	Lianjiang (Shijiao)	餐
	Lianjiang (Qingping)	餐
	Mengshan (Xihe)	餐
	Luchuan	餐
	Senai (Huiyang)	餐
	Singkawang	餐
Huizhou	Jixi	頓, 餐
Jin	Taiyuan	頓
	Xinzhou	頓
Min Bei	Jian'ou	頓
Min Dong	Fuzhou	頓
Min Nan	Xiamen	頓
	Quanzhou	頓
	Jinjiang	頓
	Yongchun	頓
	Zhangzhou	頓
	Taipei	頓
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	頓
	Kaohsiung	頓
	Yilan	頓
	Changhua (Lukang)	頓
	Taichung	頓
	Tainan	頓
	Hsinchu	頓
	Kinmen	頓
	Penghu (Magong)	頓
	Singapore (Hokkien)	頓
	Manila (Hokkien)	頓
	Chaozhou	頓
	Jieyang	頓
	Haifeng	頓
	Bangkok (Teochew)	頓
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	頓
	Singapore (Teochew)	頓
	Wenchang	頓
	Haikou	頓
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	餐
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	餐
Wu	Shanghai	頓
	Shanghai (Chongming)	頓
	Suzhou	頓
	Danyang	頓
	Hangzhou	頓
	Ningbo	頓
	Wenzhou	廚
	Jinhua	餐
Xiang	Changsha	餐
	Loudi	餐
	Shuangfeng	餐

• (classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.):

Dialectal synonyms of 頓 (“(classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
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):

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Synonyms of 頓

一下 (yīxià) 一下子 (yīxiàzi) 乍然 (zhàrán) (literary) 倏忽 (shūhū) (literary) 忽地 (hūdì) 忽然 (hūrán) 猛 (měng) 猛然 (měngrán)

猝然 (cùrán) 突然 (tūrán) 豁然 (huòrán) (literary) 遽然 (jùrán) (literary) 陡 (dǒu) (literary, or in compounds) 陡然 (dǒurán) 霍然 (huòrán) 一舉／一举 (yījǔ)

一頭／一头 (yītóu) 突然間／突然间 (tūránjiān) 頓然／顿然 (dùnrán) 驀地／蓦地 (mòdì) 驀然／蓦然 (mòrán) (formal) 驟然／骤然 (zhòurán) (literary) 𢫦𢫦風／𢫦𢫦风 (Hakka)

• (tired):

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Synonyms of 頓

乏力 (fálì) 倦怠 (juàndài) 困乏 (kùnfá) 疲乏 (pífá) 疲倦 (píjuàn) 疲困 (píkùn) (literary)

精疲力竭 (jīngpílìjié) 累 (lèi) 勞累／劳累 (láolèi) 勞頓／劳顿 (láodùn) 厭𤺪／厌𤺪 (Min Nan)

困頓／困顿 (kùndùn) 懶／懒 (lǎn) 疲勞／疲劳 (píláo) 疲憊／疲惫 (píbèi) 精疲力盡／精疲力尽 (jīngpílìjìn)

Compounds

Derived terms from 頓

一頓／一顿 乏頓／乏顿 休士頓市／休士顿市 來頓／来顿 來頓瓶／来顿瓶 倒頓／倒顿 停頓／停顿 (tíngdùn) 刁頓／刁顿 勞頓／劳顿 (láodùn) 南頓／南顿 困頓／困顿 (kùndùn) 大吵一頓／大吵一顿 委頓／委顿 威靈頓／威灵顿 (Wēilíngdùn) 安頓／安顿 (āndùn) 宿頓／宿顿 寄頓／寄顿 巴拉頓湖／巴拉顿湖 幾頓／几顿 惙頓／惙顿 抑揚頓挫／抑扬顿挫 (yìyángdùncuò) 拊膺頓足／拊膺顿足 指手頓腳／指手顿脚 捶胸頓腳／捶胸顿脚 捶胸頓足／捶胸顿足 搓手頓腳／搓手顿脚 (cuōshǒudùnjiǎo) 搓手頓足／搓手顿足 撧耳頓足／𪮖耳顿足 撼頓／撼顿

整頓／整顿 (zhěngdùn) 斗頓／斗顿 早頓／早顿 (chá-tǹg) 暗頓／暗顿 (àm-tǹg) 條頓／条顿 止頓／止顿 沉鬱頓挫／沉郁顿挫 沒頓飯時／没顿饭时 波士頓／波士顿 (Bōshìdùn) 溫布頓／温布顿 (Wēnbùdùn) 牛頓／牛顿 (Niúdùn) 疲頓／疲顿 窩頓／窝顿 綿頓／绵顿 羸頓／羸顿 舟車勞頓／舟车劳顿 (zhōuchēláodùn) 茅塞頓開／茅塞顿开 (máosèdùnkāi) 荒頓／荒顿 華盛頓／华盛顿 (Huáshèngdùn) 踣頓／踣顿 躓頓／踬顿 道爾頓制／道尔顿制 陡頓／陡顿 鞍馬勞頓／鞍马劳顿 (ānmǎláodùn) 頓不脫／顿不脱 頓劍搖環／顿剑摇环 頓口無言／顿口无言 頓地／顿地 頓失所依／顿失所依

頓息／顿息 (dùnxī) 頓悟／顿悟 (dùnwù) 頓悟前非／顿悟前非 頓挫／顿挫 (dùncuò) 頓挫抑揚／顿挫抑扬 頓捽／顿捽 頓放／顿放 頓時／顿时 (dùnshí) 頓段／顿段 頓河／顿河 (Dùn Hé) 頓然／顿然 (dùnrán) 頓牟／顿牟 頓碌／顿碌 頓筆／顿笔 頓絕／顿绝 頓脫／顿脱 頓腳／顿脚 (dùnjiǎo) 頓號／顿号 (dùnhào) 頓衣而走／顿衣而走 頓足／顿足 (dùnzú) 頓足捶胸／顿足捶胸 頓躓／顿踬 頓轡／顿辔 頓開／顿开 頓開茅塞／顿开茅塞 頓顙／顿颡 頓首／顿首 (dùnshǒu) 顛頓／颠顿 飽啖一頓／饱啖一顿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dú (du²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dú
    • Wade–Giles: tu²
    • Yale: dú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwu
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: duk⁶
    • Yale: duhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚²/

Definitions

頓

1. Only used in 冒頓／冒顿 (Mòdú).

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Japanese

Kanji

頓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: とん (ton, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: とん (ton, Jōyō)
• Kun: とみに (tomini, 頓に); ぬかずく (nukazuku, 頓ずく); つまずく (tsumazuku, 頓く)

Compounds

Compounds

• 頓死(とんし) (tonshi): sudden death
• 頓写(とんしゃ) (tonsha) quickly copying something; dead memorial service where many gather to transcribe a sutra in one day

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Korean

Hanja

頓 • (don, dun) (hangeul 돈, 둔)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頓: Hán Nôm readings: đốn, đón, nhún, dún, đon, đún, lún, rón

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