English
- heap, mound, block of stone
- block
- gate pillar
- pier
- classifier for clusters of plants
- classifier for rounds in a card game: trick
- (archaic) watchtower
- block (of building), classifier for buildings
粵語
- 座，建築物嘅量詞
Variants
Words containing 墩
- 樹墩syu6 dan2
a tree stump
- 香爐墩hoeng1 lou4 dan2
a censer;an incense burner; the only son in the family
- 面珠墩min6 zyu1 dan1
face; cheeks (spoken)
- 踎墩mau1 dan1
unemployed
- 橋墩kiu4 deon1
bridge pier
- 一墩jat1 deon1
- 墩子deon1 zi2
squat block (of stone, wood etc)
- 門墩mun4 deon1
wooden or stone block supporting the axle of a door
- 墩布deon1 bou3
swab
- 坐墩zo6 deon1
Chinese drum-shaped stool
- 土墩tou2 deon1
- 監墩gaam1 dan1
- 橫墩waang4 deon1
- 買花墩maai5 faa1 dan2
to buy a child girl for adoption (by couples who do not have children of their own)
- 擁墩jung2 dan2
fans; admirers
- 繡墩sau3 deon1
see 坐墩[zuo4 dun1]
- 拱墩gung2 deon1
pillar of a vault
- 肥墩墩fei4 deon1 deon1
exceedingly obese
- 肥墩墩fei4 deon1 deon1
exceedingly obese
- 矮墩墩ai2 deon1 deon1
pudgy
- 矮墩墩ai2 deon1 deon1
pudgy
- 胖墩墩bun6 deon1 deon1
short and stout
- 胖墩墩bun6 deon1 deon1
short and stout
- 𠳝墩mau1 dan1
to be unemployed; to be jobless; to be down and out; literally: to squat on a mooring-post. Previously unemployed coolies will go to pier to wait for job, as there's no seat in the pier, they have to squat on the mooring bollards.