止

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

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
止-order.gif

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)

  1. Kangxi radical #77, ⽌ (“stop”).

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
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
止-oracle.svg 止-bronze.svg 止-silk.svg 止-bigseal.svg 止-seal.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 "toe". 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.

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Antonyms[edit]

  • (stop): 始 (shǐ)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 止

Etymology 2[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 止 – see 只 (“only”).
(This character, 止, is a variant form of 只.)

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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