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dùn
HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 3

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Definitions

  1. 1. to stop
  2. 2. to pause
  3. 3. to arrange
  4. 4. to lay out
  5. 5. to kowtow
  6. 6. to stamp (one's foot)
  7. 7. at once

Example Sentences

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饭不咸。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 2778828)

Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.

Words Containing 顿

迈克尔·克莱顿
mài kè ěr · kè lái dùn

Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park

甩手顿脚
shuǎi shǒu dùn jiǎo

to fling one's arms and stamp one's feet (in anger or despair)

希拉里·克林顿
xī lā lǐ · kè lín dùn

Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician

顿觉
dùn jué

to feel suddenly

顿挫
dùn cuò

a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes

茅塞顿开
máo sè dùn kāi

murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear

沃顿
wò dùn

Wharton (name)

顿河
dùn hé

Don River

特伦顿
tè lún dùn

Trenton, capital of New Jersey

西顿
xī dùn

Sidon (Lebanon)

德雷斯顿
dé léi sī dùn

Dresden, Germany

布莱顿
bù lái dùn

Brighton, town in England

整顿
zhěng dùn

to tidy up

普林斯顿大学
pǔ lín sī dùn dà xué

Princeton University

哈利伯顿
hā lì bó dùn

Halliburton (US construction company)

阿普尔顿
ā pǔ ěr dùn

Appleton (name)

困顿
kùn dùn

fatigued

华盛顿特区
huá shèng dùn tè qū

Washington D.C. (US federal capital)

威灵顿
wēi líng dùn

Wellington (name)

博尔顿
bó ěr dùn

Bolton (name)

立顿
lì dùn

Lipton (name)

捶胸顿足
chuí xiōng dùn zú

to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (idiom)

顿涅茨克
dùn niè cí kè

Donetsk, city in Ukraine

埃弗顿
āi fú dùn

Everton (town in northwest England)

阿灵顿国家公墓
ā líng dùn guó jiā gōng mù

Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC, USA

牛顿力学
niú dùn lì xué

Newtonian mechanics

顿然
dùn rán

suddenly

艾萨克·牛顿
ài sà kè · niú dùn

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist

德累斯顿
dé lèi sī dùn

Dresden, capital of Saxony 薩克森州|萨克森州[sà kè sēn zhōu], Germany

休斯顿
xiū sī dùn

Houston

顿涅斯克
dùn niè sī kè

Donetsk region of W. Ukraine

海顿
hǎi dùn

Haydn (name)

温布顿
wēn bù dùn

Wimbledon

普雷斯顿
pǔ léi sī dùn

Preston, city in England

帕丽斯·希尔顿
pà lì sī · xī ěr dùn

Paris Hilton

布雷顿森林
bù léi dùn sēn lín

Bretton woods conference in 1944 of allied powers, regulating world exchange rates and setting up IMF and world bank

华盛顿邮报
huá shèng dùn yóu bào

Washington Post (newspaper)

蒙巴顿
méng bā dùn

Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg)

弗雷德里克顿
fú léi dé lǐ kè dùn

Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada

顿首
dùn shǒu

kowtow

抑扬顿挫
yì yáng dùn cuò

see 頓挫抑揚|顿挫抑扬[dùn cuò yì yáng]

乔治·华盛顿
qiáo zhì · huá shèng dùn

George Washington (1732-1799), first US president

亨廷顿舞蹈症
hēng tíng dùn wǔ dǎo zhèng

Huntington's disease

布里奇顿
bù lǐ qí dùn

Bridgetown, capital of Barbados

华盛顿
huá shèng dùn

Washington (name)

艾德蒙顿
ài dé méng dùn

Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada

牛顿
niú dùn

Newton (name)

安顿
ān dùn

to find a place for

卡尔顿
kǎ ěr dùn

Carleton

米尔顿
mǐ ěr dùn

Milton (name)

雪顿节
xuě dùn jié

Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar

莱顿大学
lái dùn dà xué

University of Leiden

希尔顿
xī ěr dùn

Hilton (hotel chain)

牛顿米
niú dùn mǐ

newton meter, unit of torque (symbol: N⋅m)

马其顿
mǎ qí dùn

Macedonia

波士顿
bō shì dùn

Boston, capital of Massachusetts

卡顿
kǎ dùn

(computing) slow

华盛顿时报
huá shèng dùn shí bào

Washington Times (newspaper)

曼哈顿
màn hā dùn

Manhattan island

停顿
tíng dùn

to halt

查尔斯顿
chá ěr sī dùn

Charleston

埃德蒙顿
āi dé méng dùn

Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada

斯坦顿
sī tǎn dùn

Stanton (name)

克林顿
kè lín dùn

Clinton (name)

顿悟
dùn wù

a flash of realization

伊顿公学
yī dùn gōng xué

Eton public school (English elite school)

饱餐一顿
bǎo cān yī dùn

to eat one's fill

马其顿共和国
mǎ qí dùn gòng hé guó

Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslav republic)

打顿
dǎ dùn

to pause

阿斯顿·马丁
ā sī dùn · mǎ dīng

Aston Martin

波士顿红袜
bō shì dùn hóng wà

Boston Red Sox (baseball) team

普林斯顿
pǔ lín sī dùn

Princeton, New Jersey

柯林顿
kē lín dùn

Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, president 1993-2001

顿号
dùn hào

Chinese back-sloping comma 、 (punct. used to separate items in a list)

惠灵顿
huì líng dùn

Wellington, capital of New Zealand

温斯顿
wēn sī dùn

Winston (name)

顿足
dùn zú

stamp (one's feet)

琼斯顿
qióng sī dùn

Johnston (name)

波士顿大学
bō shì dùn dà xué

Boston University

华盛顿州
huá shèng dùn zhōu

Washington, US State

代顿
dài dùn

Dayton (city in Ohio)

哈米吉多顿
hā mǐ jí duō dùn

Armageddon (in Revelation 16:16)

约翰斯顿
yuē hàn sī dùn

Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name

史丹顿岛
shǐ dān dùn dǎo

Staten Island, borough of New York City

顿时
dùn shí

immediately

列克星顿
liè kè xīng dùn

Lexington, Massachusetts

莱顿
lái dùn

Leiden (the Netherlands)

道尔顿
dào ěr dùn

Dalton (name)

汉密尔顿
hàn mì ěr dùn

Hamilton (name)

迟顿
chí dùn

inactive

劳顿
láo dùn

(literary) fatigued

雪顿
xuě dùn

Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar

赫芬顿邮报
hè fēn dùn yóu bào

Huffington Post (US online news aggregator)

休士顿
xiū shì dùn

Houston, Texas

惠特妮·休斯顿
huì tè nī · xiū sī dùn

Whitney Houston (1963-2012), American singer and actress

亨丁顿舞蹈症
hēng dīng dùn wǔ dǎo zhèng

Huntington's disease

鞍马劳顿
ān mǎ láo dùn

travel-worn

舟车劳顿
zhōu chē láo dùn

travel-worn

克莱顿
kè lái dùn

(name) Clayton or Crichton

温布尔顿
wēn bù ěr dùn

Wimbledon

曼哈顿区
màn hā dùn qū

Manhattan borough of New York City

顿挫抑扬
dùn cuò yì yáng

cadence

寄顿
jì dùn

to place in safe keeping

拉顿
lā dùn

Rodan (Japanese ラドン Radon), Japanese movie monster