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(tíng) - to stop, to halt; to park in Mandarin

tíng

Traditional: 停

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HSK 3
#685 of 5,000 Core 1000

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

Stroke order for 停

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Examples

。

Please stop for a moment.

雨yǔ。

The rain has stopped.

。

He parked the car by the road.

口kǒu。

The car is parked at the entrance.

，。

Please stop for a moment, I have a question.

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 停.

停止tíng zhǐto stop, to cease停下tíng xiàto stop, to come to a halt停下来tíng xià láito stop, to come to a halt不停bù tíngwithout stopping, ceaselessly, incessantly停车tíng chēto park, to stop a vehicle

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This word is part of lesson 14.