zhǐ

Traditional: 止

#5131 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

to stop; to halt (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 止

Examples

Please stop talking immediately.

No one can stop him.

The rain has finally stopped.

Today's work stops here.

His effort has not ceased.

止 (zhǐ) is a bound morpheme meaning to stop or halt, found in 停止 (tíng zhǐ) "to cease" and 阻止 (zǔ zhǐ) "to prevent".

Related words

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 止.

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This word is part of lesson 103.