屯

Alternative forms

 * Note that, in Korean and Japanese scripts, the first stroke is written in a slope from right to left (as seen in the Kangxi dictionary) instead of horizontally from left to right as in Chinese scripts.

Derived characters

 * 窀, 沌, 盹, 頓, 扽,	黗,	吨,	飩,	豘,	軘,	坉,	邨,	忳,	芚,	庉,	囤,	迍,	杶,	肫,	訰,	純, 蒓,	𧿬

Etymology 1

 * hill
 * proposes an origin. Compare 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬 & 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 dɔːl ("back of mountain"), 🇨🇬 tol ("mountain"). Possible, though unclear connection with.


 * village, hamlet

Definitions

 * 1) village; hamlet
 * 2)  military camp
 * 3) to store up; to accumulate
 * 4)  to station (troops)
 * 5) ䷂,third hexagram of the I Ching
 * 6)  mound; hill
 * 1) ䷂,third hexagram of the I Ching
 * 2)  mound; hill

Synonyms




Kanji

 * 1) gathering, gathering place
 * 2) camp, barracks

Compounds

 * : stationing
 * : (military) post
 * : faltering in worry
 * : the infancy and beginning of something

Etymology
From,. The kanji is an example of ateji.

Noun

 * 1) tonne, metric ton
 * 2)  ton, Imperial ton

Usage notes
Most usually spelled in katakana, as トン.

Hanja