止

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See also: 只, 足, and 𝍌
止 U+6B62, 止
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B62
← 歡
[U+6B61] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 正 →
[U+6B63]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
止-order.gif

Alternative forms[edit]

  • 𣥂
  • 龰 (when used as a bottom radical)

Note that 龰 may also be a component of the radicals 疋 (𤴓/𤴔), 辵 (辶), 走, and 足 (⻊/𧾷).

Han character[edit]

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Radical 77 止

止 (radical 77, 止+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜中一 (YLM), four-corner 21100, composition ⿱⿰丨⺊一 or ⿻上丨 or ⿻⺊丄)

  1. Kangxi radical #77, ⽌.

Derived characters[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 573, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16253
  • Dae Jaweon: page 961, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1435, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6B62

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 止

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 止
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
止-bronze-shang.svg 止-oracle.svg 止-bronze.svg 止-silk.svg 止-slip.svg 止-seal.svg 止-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (止) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
祉 *kʰlɯʔ
址 *kjɯʔ
止 *kjɯʔ
趾 *kjɯʔ
芷 *kjɯʔ
沚 *kjɯʔ
阯 *kjɯʔ
齒 *kʰjɯʔ
紕 *be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a footprint, originally meaning "foot". The derivative 趾 (OC *kjɯʔ) refers to the original meaning. Compare 手 (“hand”). Note that in oracle script, composed of 3 toes and a sole.

Compare to 夊, 夂, which have similar shape in oracle script, but pointing down (toe pointing right), and 𡕒 (as in right side of 舛, roughly ヰ, toe pointing left), hence different evolution.

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 止
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 諸市切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cɨX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiəX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhǐ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 止
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyiX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*təʔ/
English foot; stop

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 止
Reading # 1/1
No. 17297
Phonetic
component 		止
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		止
Old
Chinese 		/*kjɯʔ/
Notes 趾初文

Definitions[edit]

止

  1. † foot
  2. to stop; to halt
    休止  ―  xiūzhǐ  ―  to stop
  3. to bring to an end; to stop; to relieve
    止癢 / 止痒  ―  zhǐyǎng  ―  to stop itching (irritation)
  4. to end; to finish
  5. only
  6. 71st tetragram of the Taixuanjing

Antonyms[edit]

  • (stop): 始 (shǐ)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 止

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

止

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. (とめる): to stop
  2. (やめる): to stop, to terminate

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

止 • (ji)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 지 (revised: ji, McCune–Reischauer: chi, Yale: ci)
    • Name (hangeul): 그칠
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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

止 (chỉ)

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