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頓
頓
See also: 顿
Translingual
Han character
頓 (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: volume 7, page 4360, character 5
- Unihan data for U+9813
Chinese
| trad. | 頓 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 顿 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 頓
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|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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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 |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): deon6, duk6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tun
- Min Dong (BUC): dóng
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): ten (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˋ
- Wade-Giles: tun4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duenn
- IPA (key): /tu̯ən⁵¹/
-

- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ
- Wade-Giles: tu2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwu
- IPA (key): /tu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: deon6, duk6
- Yale: deuhn, duhk
- Cantonese Pinyin: doen6, duk9
- IPA (key): /tɵn²²/, /tʊk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tun
- Hakka Romanization System: dun
- Hagfa Pinyim: dun4
- IPA: /tun⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: dóng
- IPA (key): /touŋ²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tùn / tǹg
- Tâi-lô: tùn / tǹg
- Phofsit Daibuun: duxn, dngx
- IPA (Xiamen): /tun²¹/, /tŋ̍²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tun⁴¹/, /tŋ̍⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tun²¹/, /tŋ̍²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /tun¹¹/, /tŋ̍¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tun²¹/, /tŋ̍²¹/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: deng3
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tṳ̀ng
- IPA (key): /tɯŋ²¹³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ten (T2)
- IPA (key): /təɲ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 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/ |
| 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 |
| 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
References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #10318”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
頓
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