顿挫 頓挫

顿挫頓挫 in English

dùn cuò
a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes / a cadence / punctuated by a transition / with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 顿 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 顿 Show the animation
Le caractère 頓 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 頓, the traditional character: 顿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 挫 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 挫 Clerical script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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