顿挫

a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes / a cadence / punctuated by a transition / with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)

Characters and words in 顿挫

顿

頓

dùn = du + (e)n4

to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal

顿 = 屯 + 页 : Day in, day out Doggy Dog is picking up paper in the encampment with a trident. Right now he's having a break in the encampment's bathroom, his trident leaning to the wall, with a piece of paper sticking to the trident's middle dent (屯). It's very hot, so Doggy Dog takes one of the sheets of paper he picked up and fans himself some fresh air.

挫

cuò = cu + o4

obstructed / to fail / to oppress / to repress / to lower the tone / to bend back / to dampen

挫 = 坐 + 扌 : Kitty Cat (cu) was naughty and now she has been sat down (挫) in the observatory's bathroom (o4). To be precise, she is being pressed down by several toy claws (扌) on a bench (坐).