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📚 Example Sentences

请在这里停车。
Qǐng zài zhèlǐ tíng chē.
Please stop the car here.
雨停了。
Yǔ tíng le.
The rain has stopped.
他停了一下。
Tā tíng le yīxià.
He paused for a moment.
车停了。
Chē tíng le.
The car stopped.
请停一下。
Qǐng tíng yīxià.
Please stop for a moment.

💡 Memory Tip

Imagine a car stopping at a '停' sign—the character looks like a person (亻) standing next to a pavilion (亭), as if pausing to rest there.

📝 Usage Notes

Used in both spoken and written Chinese across formal and informal contexts. Common in everyday situations like stopping vehicles (停车), pausing activities (停工), or describing weather phenomena (雨停了). It's straightforward and widely applicable.

📖 Grammar Points

Often used as a transitive verb (停车) or intransitively (雨停了). Can be reduplicated as 停停 (to stop briefly) in informal speech. Frequently appears in resultative complements like 停下来 (to come to a stop).

🏯 Cultural Notes

In traffic contexts, 停 is used on stop signs in China. Culturally, it can imply patience, as in waiting for something to finish (e.g., rain stopping) before acting.

🔄 Similar Words

Compared to 止 (zhǐ, to stop/block), 停 often implies a temporary pause, while 止 can be more final. 停 is more common for everyday actions; 站 (zhàn, to stand) means to be upright, not necessarily to stop moving.

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