顿
Meaning
- to stop
- to pause
- to arrange
Example sentence
这顿饭不咸。
The meal is not salty.
The character 顿
顿 has 页, a head, on the right: the head coming to rest, a pause. It counts meals and tellings-off — 一顿饭 — and 顿时 means at once, in the pause right after something.