停

See also: 仃 and 佇

Translingual

Han character

停 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人卜口弓 (OYRN), four-corner 2022₁, composition ⿰亻亭)

Derived characters

• 𠼵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 110, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 864
• Dae Jaweon: page 236, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 194, character 7
• Unihan data for U+505C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		停
alternative forms		仃 second round simplified ⿰亻⿱⿳亠⿲丨二丨冖丁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 停
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s05922 Transcribed ancient scripts L11416 L11417
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (丁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
圢	*tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋʔ
町	*tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ, *deːŋʔ
打	*rteŋʔ, *teːŋʔ
盯	*rteŋʔ, *rdeŋ
朾	*rteːŋ, *rdeːŋ
丁	*rteːŋ, *teːŋ
玎	*rteːŋ, *teːŋ
虰	*rdeːŋ, *tʰeŋ, *teːŋ
揨	*rdeːŋ
釘	*teːŋ, *teːŋs
靪	*teːŋ, *teːŋʔ
仃	*teːŋ
叮	*teːŋ
疔	*teːŋ
頂	*teːŋʔ
奵	*teːŋʔ
耵	*teːŋʔ
酊	*teːŋʔ
葶	*teːŋʔ, *deːŋ
矴	*teːŋs
訂	*teːŋs, *tʰeːŋ, *deːŋʔ
飣	*teːŋs
汀	*tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋs
艼	*tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ
庁	*tʰeːŋ
婷	*deːŋ
停	*deːŋ
聤	*deːŋ
渟	*deːŋ
楟	*deːŋ
亭	*deːŋ

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 停

1. to stop; to halt

   停！  ―  Tíng!  ―  Stop!

2. to park (a car)

Synonyms

• (Classical) 止 (zhǐ)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (停):

• → Japanese: 停(てい) (tei)
• → Korean: 정(停) (jeong)
• → Vietnamese: đình (停)

Further reading

• “Entry #6938”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

停

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to stop

Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)
• Kan-on: てい (tei, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ちょう (chō)
• Kun: とめる (tomeru, 停める); とまる (tomaru, 停まる); とどまる (todomaru, 停まる)

Compounds

• 各(かく)停(てい) (kakutei)

• 停(てい)車(しゃ) (teisha)

• バス停(てい) (basutei): bus stop

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Korean

Hanja

停 (eum 정 (jeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

停: Hán Nôm readings: đình, dành, đành, đừng, dừng, rành

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