暂 zàn
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- Made of
- 斩 to chop, to cut, to sever 日 sun
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
暂停
zàntíng
to pause
Characters in this word
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
Example phrases
- 请暂停一下。 Qǐng zàntíng yíxià. Please pause for a moment.
- 电影暂停了。 Diànyǐng zàntíng le. The movie is paused.
- 我们暂停上课。 Wǒmen zàntíng shàngkè. We pause the class for now.