停止
Meaning
- to stop; to halt; to cease
Example sentence
停止工作。
Stop working.
Characters in 停止
- 停 tíng to stop
- 止 zhǐ to stop, to halt; only, just
停 to stop plus 止, to halt. 停 is the one that stands alone — 停车, 停下 — where 止 survives mostly in compounds like 禁止 and 防止. The pair is more final than 停 alone.