漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
停: halt, stopping
JLPT N211 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 亭 gives the sound
11 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
テイtei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 停学ていがくsuspension from school
- 停職ていしょくsuspension from work
- バス停バスていbus stop
- 停車するていしゃするstop one's car
- 停止するていしするstop [v.i., v.t.]
- 停電するていでんするgo out, get cut off (electricity)
- 停戦するていせんするsuspend hostilities
- 停滞するていたいするstagnate
- 調停するちょうていするconciliate
Also read とめる, とまる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人, as 亻 (meaning) + 亭 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 停 (rev. 92199933), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Person (亻) + pavilion (亭 - high building). Originally a "person" reaching a "high building" or pavilion to rest—the literal act of "stopping" or halting.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tíng
Same form: 停 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 停 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 停 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tíng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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