吨
ton (loanword); Taiwan pr. [dun4]
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,787 U+5428
How 吨 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
口 (semantic, “mouth”) + 屯 (phonetic, tún)
How to remember it
ton · Heisig RSH #2543
口 mouth + earthworm
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 屯
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 屯 (tún) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 屯 sound component | tún | village, hamlet; camp; station |
| 顿 | dùn | to pause; to bow; to arrange |
| 纯 | chún | pure, clean; simple, genuine |
| 钝 | dùn | blunt, obtuse; dull, flat; dim-witted |
| 炖 | dùn | stew; to cook stew |
| 囤 | tún | grain basket; to store, to hoard |
| 沌 | dùn | chaotic, confused; murky, turbid |
| 盹 | dǔn | to doze, to nap, to nod off |
| 砘 | dùn | a kind of farm tool |
| 窀 | zhūn | to bury |
| 饨 | tún | stuffed dumplings |
| 肫 | zhūn | gizzard; honest, sincere |
Words containing 吨
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 等效百万吨当量 | děng xiào bǎi wàn dūn dāng liàng | equivalent megatonnage (EMT) |
| 吨公里 | dūn gōng lǐ | ton-kilometer (unit of capacity of transport system) |
| 重量吨 | zhòng liàng dūn | dead weight ton |
| 百万吨 | bǎi wàn dūn | megaton; million tons |
| 总吨位 | zǒng dūn wèi | overall tonnage (of a shipping fleet or company) |
| 公吨 | gōng dūn | ton; metric ton |
| 吨数 | dūn shù | tonnage |
| 吨位 | dūn wèi | tonnage |
| 千吨 | qiān dūn | kiloton |
| 吨级 | dūn jí | tonnage; class in tons (of a passenger ship) |
| 英吨 | Yīng dūn | tonne; imperial or US tonne, equal to 2240 pounds or 1.016 metric tons |
| 呫吨酮 | zhān dūn tóng | xanthone (chemistry) |
| 呫吨 | zhān dūn | xanthene (chemistry) |
| 𪢠吨 | Lán dūn | (old) London (now written 倫敦|伦敦[Lun2 dun1]) |