止

See also: 只 and 足

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 止
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) – a footprint, originally meaning "toe". The derivative 趾 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.

Han character

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

Definitions

1. stop, halt, desist, end, expire
2. detain
3. foot (Archaic, from Oracle script, according to the Japanese dictionary Kanjigen, 漢字源 Fujido, replaced by 趾)
4. Kangxi radical #77, ⽌ ‎(“stop”).

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/止
• 阯, 𠯽, 址, 扯, 沚, 杫, 祉, 砋, 耻, 趾, 訨 (𫟞), 頉, 企, 芷, 齒 (齿), 凪

Descendants

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

Antonyms

• (stop): 始

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

simp. and trad.		止

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): 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
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chí
    • Hakka Romanization System: ji`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ji³
    • IPA: /t͡ɕi³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕi⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨ^X/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*təʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kjɯʔ/

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

止

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   止癢 / 止痒  ―  zhǐ yǎng  ―  to stop itching (irritation)

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #816”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Etymology 2

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

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Japanese

Kanji

止

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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

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) ‎(kakuyokushi) 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) ‎(shishifushusetsu)

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) ‎(shūshi) 笑止 (しょうし) ‎(shōshi) 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) ‎(funadome) 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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