The use of this component is not consistent. From the character for electricity 电 comes the meaning "lightning rod". Also other explanations are used such as "hook" or "kneeling person".
Picture of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows 頁 meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.
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Vocabulary
华盛顿
Huá shèng dùn
Washington (name); George Washington (1732-1799), first US president; Washington, US State; Washington D.C. (US federal capital)
2784
整顿
zhěng dùn
to tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate; to rectify
2798
顿首
dùn shǒu
kowtow
2995
牛顿
Niú dùn
Newton (name); Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
3552
沃顿
Wò dùn
Wharton (name)
4936
顿涅茨克
Dùn niè cí kè
Donetsk
5204
顿挫
dùn cuò
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)
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