Memory phrase for the character: 顿

顿

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Meaning

to pause, meal, bout, to stop

Pronunciation

dùn

Explanation

Left: barracks 屯, (Where growing shoots 屮 pierced the ground 一 they built a barracks.), right: page, leaf 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)

Mnemonic

(Soldiers on march need regular breaks) At the barracks the heads join to pause and for meals.

Radicals

屯	barracks	barracks, to station (soldiers), village
屮	sprout
頁	head, leader	Picture of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows 頁 meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.

Vocabulary

华盛顿	Huá shèng dùn	Washington (name); George Washington (1732-1799), first US president; Washington, US State; Washington D.C. (US federal capital)
整顿	zhěng dùn	to tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate; to rectify
顿首	dùn shǒu	kowtow
牛顿	Niú dùn	Newton (name); Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
沃顿	Wò dùn	Wharton (name)
顿涅茨克	Dùn niè cí kè	Donetsk
顿挫	dùn cuò	a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes; a cadence; punctuated by a transition; with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)
捶胸顿足	chuí xiōng dùn zú	to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (idiom)
捶胸顿足	chuí xiōng dùn zú

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