停
to stop; to halt; to park (a car)
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #995 U+505C
How 停 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 (semantic, “person”) + 亭 (phonetic, tíng)
How to remember it
halt · Heisig RSH #818
人 person + 亭 pavilion
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 亭
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 亭 (tíng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亭 sound component | tíng | pavilion; erect |
| 婷 | tíng | attractive, graceful, pretty |
| 葶 | tíng | yellow whitlow-grass; Draba nemerosa |
Words containing 停
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 停车计时器 | tíng chē jì shí qì | parking meter |
| 停机时间 | tíng jī shí jiān | downtime (computer network, power plant etc) |
| 停下来 | tíng xià lái | to stop |
| 停火线 | tíng huǒ xiàn | cease-fire line |
| 停车场 | tíng chē chǎng | parking lot; car park |
| 停车格 | tíng chē gé | parking bay |
| 停战日 | Tíng zhàn rì | Armistice Day |
| 停车位 | tíng chē wèi | parking space; parking spot |
| 调停者 | tiáo tíng zhě | mediator; intermediary; go-between |
| 不停 | bù tíng | incessant |
| 停水 | tíng shuǐ | to cut off the water supply; water outage |
| 停机 | tíng jī | (of a machine) to stop; to shut down; to park a plane; to finish shooting (a TV program et… |
| 停手 | tíng shǒu | to stop (what one is doing) |
| 停电 | tíng diàn | to have a power failure; power cut |
| 停下 | tíng xià | to stop |
| 停车 | tíng chē | to pull up (stop one's vehicle); to park; (of a machine) to stop working; to stall |
| 停工 | tíng gōng | to stop work; to shut down; to stop production |
| 伤停补时 | shāng tíng bǔ shí | (sports) injury time |
| 停火 | tíng huǒ | to cease fire; ceasefire |
| 停经 | tíng jīng | to stop menstruating (as a result of pregnancy, menopause or medical condition etc) |