顿 (dùn) means Stop (mw for meals - stamp). Below are 11 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他说到这里 顿 了一下。
Tā shuō dào zhèlǐ dùn le yíxià.
He paused for a moment at this point.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 顿
他被老板骂了一 顿 。
Tā bèi lǎobǎn mà le yí dùn.
He got a telling-off from the boss.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 骂
整 顿 之后秩序好多了。
Zhěngdùn zhīhòu zhìxù hǎo duō le.
Order is much better after the shake-up.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 整顿
他说到一半停 顿 了一下。
Tā shuō dào yíbàn tíngdùn le yíxià.
He paused halfway through what he was saying.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 停顿
今晚就用剩饭对付一 顿 吧。
Jīnwǎn jiù yòng shèngfàn duìfu yí dùn ba.
Let's just make do with the leftovers for a meal tonight.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 对付
灯一亮，屋里 顿 时暖和起来。
Dēng yí liàng, wū lǐ dùnshí nuǎnhuo qǐlái.
The moment the lamp came on, the room instantly felt warmer.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 顿时
工程因资金问题停 顿 了半年。
Gōngchéng yīn zījīn wèntí tíngdùn le bàn nián.
The project halted for six months over funding.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 停顿
公司对内部管理进行了整 顿 。
Gōngsī duì nèibù guǎnlǐ jìnxíng le zhěngdùn.
The company overhauled its internal management.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 整顿
听到这个消息，他 顿 时愣住了。
Tīngdào zhège xiāoxi, tā dùnshí lèngzhù le.
At the news he was struck dumb on the spot.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 顿时
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Words that contain 顿
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Questions about 顿
How is 顿 used in a sentence?
This page shows 11 sentences using 顿 (dùn, "Stop (mw for meals - stamp)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 顿 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 顿 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 顿 an HSK word?
Yes — 顿 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 顿?
The dictionary page for 顿 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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