顿
dùndú HSK3

to bow, pause

顿 頓 dùn frequency
[meal/bout] measure word
measure word for meals, beatings, or scoldings

你一天吃几顿饭？

nǐ yī​tiān chī jǐ dùn fàn?

How many meals do you have a day?

to pause verb
to pause; to stop briefly; to stay
to arrange verb
to arrange; to settle; to put in order; to tidy up
to stamp nounverb
to stamp one's foot
suddenly
suddenly; immediately; at once
tired
(bound form) tired; fatigued; weary
[surname]
a Chinese surname
to press
(of calligraphy) to press the brush on the paper, pausing briefly to make a heavy stroke
to kowtow
to touch the ground with one's head (as a sign of respect)
to station
(literary) to station troops; to quarter; to camp
blunt
(literary) dull; blunt (not sharp)
lodging
(literary) a place to stay or have a meal; a stopover
顿 頓 dú
[name]
used in the name 冒顿 mò​dú, a leader of the Xiongnu

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Frequency
Character
Written text
794th most common 229.6 per million
Movie subtitles
682nd most common 194.4 per million appears in 44% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
71.0 per million appears in 22% of films
Written text
64.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
頓
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+987F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)