敦

敦 (radical 66, 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜木人大 (YDOK), four-corner 0844₀, composition ⿰享攵)

• 墩, 撴, 噋, 獤, 潡, 憞, 橔, 暾, 犜, 燉, 礅, 𧝋, 鐓 (镦), 蹾, 譈, 驐, 鷻, 墪, 撉, 憝, 鐜

• KangXi: page 473, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13276
• Dae Jaweon: page 826, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1468, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6566

Historical forms of the character 敦
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns) : phonetic 𦎫 + semantic 攴 (“hand”)

“thick; earnest; plentiful; large”

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t/d)ow-n (“thick”).

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敦

1. ^† angry
2. to urge
3. ^† to advise and encourage
4. ^† diligent
5. earnest; honest; generous
6. ^† intimate
7. ^† thick
8. ^† plentiful; rich
9. ^† large
10. ^† to attach importance to; to esteem; to revere
11. ^† to put something down with great force
12. a river in Shanxi
13. A surname​.

敦

1. ancient vessel used to hold grains

敦

1. ^† to administer; to manage

   • 敦商之旅，克咸厥功。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Duī Shāng zhī lǚ, kè xián jué gōng. [Pinyin]

     [Wu] disposed of the troops of Shang;
     He and his men shared equally in the achievement.

2. ^† solitary

   • 敦彼獨宿，亦在車下。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     敦彼独宿，亦在车下。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Duī bǐ dú sù, yì zài chē xià. [Pinyin]

     And quietly and solitarily did we pass the night,
     Under our carriages.

3. ^† to throw
4. ^† to force upon

   • 王事敦我，政事一埤遺我。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     王事敦我，政事一埤遗我。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Wángshì duī wǒ, zhèngshì yī pí yí wǒ. [Pinyin]

     The king's business is thrown on me,
     And the affairs of our government are left to me more and more.

See 團 (OC *doːn).

敦

1. ^† clustered
2. ^† Alternative form of 團／团 (tuán, “round”).

   • 有敦瓜苦，烝在栗薪。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yǒu tuán guā kǔ, zhēng zài lì xīn. [Pinyin]

     There were the round bitter gourds hanging,
     From the branches of the chestnut trees.

敦

1. ^† to erect
2. ^† Alternative form of 墩 (dūn).

敦

1. Only used in 混敦 and 敦然.

敦

1. Only used in 敦恨.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. kindness, affinity

• Go-on: とん (ton); たい (tai)
• Kan-on: とん (ton); たい (tai)
• Kan’yō-on: つい (tsui)
• Kun: あつい (atsui, 敦い)
• Nanori: あつし (atsushi); つとむ (tsutomu)

From Middle Chinese 敦 (MC tuʌi, tuən, duɑn, tuən^H).

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) た​い [táꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠i]

敦 (hiragana たい, rōmaji tai)

1. dui (vessel)

敦 (hiragana あつし, rōmaji Atsushi, alternative reading つとむ, rōmaji Tsutomu)

1. A male given name

敦 • (don, toe) (hangeul 돈, 퇴, revised don, toe, McCune–Reischauer ton, t'oe, Yale ton, thoy)

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敦: Hán Việt readings: đôn (都(đô)昆(côn)切(thiết))[1][2][3][4], dun[4]
敦: Nôm readings: đon[1][2][3][5][6][7], run[1][2][3][4][6][7], xôn[2][5][4], xun[3][5][6], đôn[3][4][7], giun[4][6][7], dun[4][6][7], don[4][6][7], dồn[1][2], ton[3][5], rủn[3][6], gion[5][6], chon[1], trôn[1], đun[1], dôn[3], giôn[3], đùn[3], đũn[6], dún[7]

1. Nôm form of run (“to tremble; to shiver”).