阻 zǔ
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 且 moreover, also (post-subject)
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
阻止
zǔzhǐ
to stop; to prevent
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
- 我阻止他走。 Wǒ zǔzhǐ tā zǒu. I stop him from leaving.
- 请阻止孩子。 Qǐng zǔzhǐ háizi. Please stop the child.
- 雨阻止了比赛。 Yǔ zǔzhǐ le bǐsài. The rain stopped the match.
Related words
- 阻碍 zǔ'ài to block; to hinder
- 防止 fángzhǐ to prevent
- 停止 tíngzhǐ to stop
- 禁止 jìnzhǐ to forbid
- 不止 bùzhǐ more than; nonstop
- 为止 wéizhǐ until (up to a point)
- 终止 zhōngzhǐ to stop; to end
- 摆脱 bǎituō to get rid of; to break free from
- 维持 wéichí to maintain; to keep
- 缓解 huǎnjiě to ease; to relieve
- 导致 dǎozhì to cause; to lead to
- 积累 jīlěi to accumulate