Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- dùn
English
- hide, conceal oneself
- to evade
- escape
- to flee
- to escape
- to escape
- to hide, so that others do not recognise
粵語
- 逃走
- 隱藏, 令人唔發覺
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 遁
- 遁形deon6 jing4
to vanish
- 隱遁jan2 deon6
to disappear from view
- 借水遁ze3 seoi2 deon6
use water as cover to escape, a term which is mostly used in Chinese martial arts fiction
- 借屎遁ze3 si2 deon6
using going to the restroom as an excuse to escape from an undesired situation
- 借尿遁ze3 niu6 deon6
escape or avoid responsibility by faking the urge to urinate (slang)
- 尿遁niu6 deon6
(slang) pretext of needing to urinate (used to slip away to avoid having to do sth)
- 逃遁tou4 deon6
to escape
- 無所遁形mou4 so2 deon6 jing4
(verb) have no way to flee away or no place to hide
- 奇門遁甲kei4 mun4 deon6 gaap3
Qimen Dunjia, an ancient system of occult arts used for divination and strategic planning
- 飛天遁地fei1 tin1 deon6 dei6
to be capable of doing superhuman things (like flying in the sky and fleeing underground)
- 遁入空門deon6 jap6 hung1 mun4
to take refuge in religious life
- 月光隱遁jyut6 gwong1 jan2 deon6
- 聞風先遁man4 fung1 sin1 deon6
to flee at hearing the news (idiom)