止

See also: 只 and 足

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a footprint. 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.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

止 (radical 77 止+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜中一 (YLM), four-corner 2110₀)

1. stop, halt, desist
2. detain
3. foot (Archaic, from Oracle script, according to the Japanese dictionary Kanjigen, 漢字源 Fujido, replaced by 趾)

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/止
• 齒

Descendants

• 之
• と
• ト
• 士 (as component, as in 志)

References

• 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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		止

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chí
• Min Nan (POJ): chí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chí
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /t͡ɕi³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (止, reconstructed)
Character (止), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 諸市切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕɨX/	/t͡ɕiX/	/t͡ɕiəX/	/t͡ɕɨX/	/cɨX/	/t͡ɕĭəX/	/t͡ɕieX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (止, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
止								zhǐ								‹ tsyiX ›								/*təʔ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
止					17297					止					之					0					止					/*kjɯʔ/					趾初文

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

止

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: し (shi)
• Kan’on: し (shi)
• Kun: とまる (tomaru), あし (ashi), とめる (tomeru), やめる (yameru)

Compounds

遏止 (あっし, asshi) 一乗止観院 (いちじょうしかんいん, ichijōshikan'in) 駅止 (えきどめ, ekidome) 襟止 (えりどめ, eridome) 依止 (えじ, eji) 乎古止点 (おことてん, okototen) 核抑止 (かくよくし, kakuyokusi) 鎌止 (かまどめ, kamadome) 川止 (かわどめ, kawadome) 諫止 (かんし, kanshi) 客止 (きゃくどめ, kyakudome) 休止 (きゅうし, kyūshi) 競業避止 (きゅうぎょうひし, kyūgyōhishi) 拒止 (きょし, kyoshi) 挙止 (きょし, kyoshi) 禁止 (きんし, kinshi) 鞍作止利 (くらつくりのとり, kuratsukurinotori) 車止 (くるまどめ, kurumadome) 止観 (しかん, shikan) 止観業 (しかんごう, shikangō) 止汗剤 (しかんざい, shikanzai) 止観十乗 (しかんじゅうじょう, shikanjūjō) 止血 (しけつ, shiketsu) 止止不須説 (ししふしゅせつ, shishihushusetsu)

止瀉剤 (ししゃざい, shishazai) 止宿 (ししゅく, shishuku) 止水 (しすい, shisui) 止痛 (しつう, shitsū) 車輪止 (しゃりんどめ, sharindome) 臭気止 (しゅうきどめ, shūkidome) 終止 (しゅうし, shūsi) 笑止 (しょうし, shōsi) 止揚 (しよう, shiyō) 止痢剤 (しりざい, shirizai) 真言止観 (しんごんしかん, shingonshikan) 進止 (しんし, shinshi) 止住 (しじゅう, shijū) 止動方角 (しどうほうがく, shidōhōgaku) 制止 (せいし, seishi) 静止 (せいし, seishi) 咳止 (せきどめ, sekidome) 沮止 (そし, soshi) 阻止 (そし, soshi) 体言止 (たいげんどめ, taigendome) 中止 (ちゅうし, chūshi) 丁丁発止 (ちょうちょうはっし, chōchōhasshi) 血止 (ちどめ, chidome) 停止 (ていし, teishi)

底止 (ていし, teishi) 天台止観 (てんだいしかん, tendaishikan) 止木 (とめぎ, tomegi) 止句 (とめく, tomeku) 止相場 (とめそうば, tomesōba) 止針 (とめばり, tomebari) 止偏 (とめへん, tomehen) 止弁 (そめべん, someben) 廃止 (はいし, haishi) 波止場 (はとば, hatoba) 船止 (ふなどめ, hunadome) 閉止 (へいし, heishi) 摩訶止観 (まかしかん, makashikan) 明鏡止水 (めいきょうしすい, meikyōshisui) 黙止 (もくし, mokushi) 山止 (やまどめ, yamadome) 雪止 (ゆきどめ, yukidome) 容止 (ようし, yōshi) 抑止 (よくし, yokushi) 乎古止点 (おことてん, okototen) 魚鳥止 (ぎょうちょうどめ, gyōchōdome) 動止 (どうし, dōshi) 防止 (ぼうし, bōshi)

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Korean

Hanja

止 (ji)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 지 (revised: ji, McCune-Reischauer: chi, Yale: ci)

• Name (hangeul): 그칠()

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Vietnamese

Han character

止 (chỉ)

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