Chinese Character Wiki
屯

tún, zhūn

village

Original meaning: 

sprout

Depicts a recently germinated plant. Based on the original meaning "sprout". The meaning later expanded to "gather", "guard", "station", and "village".

Evolution

屯 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
屯 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
屯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
屯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
屯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

屯  

tún

village, hamlet; camp; station; to station (soldiers); to store up; village

屯  

zhūn

difficult; stingy

Most common words with 屯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

屯

village

三里屯

Sanlitun (Beijing street name)

屯溪

Tunxi district of Huangshan city 黃山市|黄山市[Huáng​shān​shì], Anhui

奎屯

Kuitun city or Küytun shehiri in Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[Yī​lí​Hā​sà​kè​zì​zhì​zhōu], Xinjiang

苏家屯区

Sujiatun district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

邨

Sound component in 17 characters (5 verified)

顿 頓 春 純 纯 吨 鈍 钝 沌 炖 盹 飩 饨 囤 肫 窀 砘

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤun

dwon

tún

accumulate

*trun

trwin

zhūn

difficult


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2864th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+5C6F

Shuowen

“屯，難也。象艸木之初生，屯然而難。从中貫一，一，地也。尾曲。《易》曰：‘屯，剛柔始交而難生’。”


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