Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

頓: suddenly, immediately

Also: in a hurry, arrange, stay in place, bow, kowtow

N1 (our estimate)13 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

頁 carries the meaning · 屯 is drawn in

13 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

トンton · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 整頓せいとんorderliness; put in order; tidying up
  • 停頓ていとんdeadlock; standstill; stalemate
  • 頓死とんしsudden death; unexpected death

Also read トツ, にわかに, とんと, つまずく, とみに, ぬかずく, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Face the world! This radical represents everything that happens from the neck up—thinking, seeing, breathing, and the very identity of a person.”
More in the 頁 head story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
屯

Also built on barracks (屯)

頁

Also built on head (頁)

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Also read トン

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read トツ

2 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
頓 suddenly · 屯
vs頑 stubborn · 元
頓 has 屯 where 頑 has 元.
In ChineseSimplified 顿 · traditional, as in Japanese · dùn

Japan keeps the traditional form 頓; mainland China simplifies it to 顿.

Simplified
顿 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
頓 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin dùn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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