dūn
measure word HSK 5 #7,280

Meanings

  1. 1 ton (unit of weight)

Characters

Examples

Zhè liàng kǎchē néng zhuāng wǔ dūn huòwù.
This truck can carry five tons of cargo.
Zhōngguó měinián shēngchǎn jǐ yì dūn gāngtiě.
China produces hundreds of millions of tons of steel per year.
Yì dūn děngyú yì qiān gōngjīn.
One ton equals one thousand kilograms.

Tips

history
is a phonetic loan — the character was created specifically to transliterate the English word 'ton.' The radical indicates a phonetic borrowing.

Stroke Order

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