停 tíng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 亭 pavilion
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
停止
tíngzhǐ
to stop
Characters in this word
止 zhǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 止 — to stop, to halt
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 雨停止了。 Yǔ tíng zhǐ le. The rain has stopped.
- 请停止说话。 Qǐng tíng zhǐ shuō huà. Please stop talking.
- 音乐停止了。 Yīn yuè tíng zhǐ le. The music has stopped.