遁 — Chinese character
遁
dùn
to flee, to escape; to hide, to conceal oneself
- Pinyin
- dùn
- Radical
- 162 ⾡ (Walk)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 辶 盾
- Formation
- ideographic — To escape 辶 to shelter 盾; 盾 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 遁 as a kanji
Common words with 遁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 逃遁 | táo dùn | to escape; to disappear |
| 遁形 | dùn xíng | to vanish; to hide |
| 隐遁 (隱遁) | yǐn dùn | to disappear from view; to live in seclusion |
| 奇门遁甲 (奇門遁甲) | qí mén dùn jiǎ | Qimen Dunjia, an ancient system of occult arts used for divination and strategic planning |
| 遁入空门 (遁入空門) | dùn rù kōng mén | to take refuge in religious life |
| 尿遁 | niào dùn | (slang) pretext of needing to urinate (used to slip away to avoid having to do sth) |
| 闻风先遁 (聞風先遁) | wén fēng xiān dùn | to flee at hearing the news (idiom) |
遁 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 7 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Mencius 2A.2
- Zhuangzi Nourishment of the Soul
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Tsê Yang
- Zhuangzi Contingencies
- Zhuangzi Lieh Tzŭ
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 11
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.