Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 顿
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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
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屯
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barracks | (barracks, to station (soldiers), village) |
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乚
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lighting rod | (The use of this component is not consistent. From the character for electricity 电 comes the meaning "lightning rod", although other explanations are used such as "hook" or "kneeling person".) |
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頁
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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.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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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) |
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