(tíng) - to stop, to halt; to park in Mandarin
tíngTraditional: 停
Translation
to stop, to halt; to park
Word origin
停 (tíng) means 'to stop, to halt'. It is a phono-semantic compound with the 亻(person) radical for meaning and 亭 (tíng, a pavilion) as the phonetic component, suggesting someone pausing at a wayside pavilion.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 亻(person radical) + 亭 (tíng, pavilion, phonetic)
Stroke order
停
Examples
。
Please stop for a moment.
雨。
The rain has stopped.
。
He parked the car by the road.
口。
The car is parked at the entrance.
，。
Please stop for a moment, I have a question.
Where this fits
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 停.
Used in
Grammar articles
(4)The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
The Mandarin Durative 着 (zhe): Marking a State That Continues (门开着, 拿着书, 笑着说)
The Two 了 in Mandarin: Completion 了 After the Verb vs Change-of-State 了 at the End
Mandarin Modal Verbs: 会, 想, 要, 应该, 可以, 能 and the Future-Intent Words 打算, 准备
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