(zhǐ) - to stop; to halt (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
zhǐTraditional: 止
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Translation
to stop; to halt (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A pictographic character: the original picture of a foot, hence a footstep, then the place where a foot comes to rest, giving the meaning to stop or halt.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- a picture of a foot
Stroke order
止
Examples
。
Please stop talking immediately.
。
No one can stop him.
雨。
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".
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 止.
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