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Chinese
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to stop; prohibit; till
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rest; news; interest rest; news; interest; breath |
simp. and trad.
(止息)
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止
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息
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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止
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息
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息
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zhǐ
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xī
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xī
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tsyiX ›
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‹ sik ›
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‹ sik ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*təʔ/
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/*sək/
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/*sək/
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| English
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foot; stop
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breathe
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安息 Ānxī (Iranian country in the western regions, W. Hàn; from Aršaka = Arsaces, founder of the Arsacid dynasty)
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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止
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息
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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17297
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13332
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Phonetic
component
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止
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息
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Rime
group
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之
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職
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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止
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息
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Old
Chinese
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/*kjɯʔ/
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/*slɯɡ/
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| Notes
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趾初文
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說文自亦聲
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Verb
止息
- to stop; to cease
Synonyms
- 中斷／中断 (zhōngduàn)
- 中止 (zhōngzhǐ)
- 休止 (xiūzhǐ)
- 停 (tíng)
- 停歇 (tíngxiē)
- 停止 (tíngzhǐ)
- 夭閼／夭阏 (yǎo'è)
- 干休 (gānxiū) (literary)
- 放煞 (Min Nan)
- 斷站／断站 (Xiamen Hokkien)
- 斷節／断节 (Xiamen Hokkien)
- 暫停／暂停 (zàntíng) (temporarily)
- 歇 (xiē)
- 止 (zhǐ) (literary, or in compounds)
- 止煞 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 瀦／潴 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
- 煞 (Hokkien)
- 煞手 (Hokkien)
- 甘休 (gānxiū) (to be willing to give up)
- 終止／终止 (zhōngzhǐ)
- 絕／绝 (jué) (literary, or in compounds)
- 罷／罢
- 罷休／罢休 (bàxiū) (chiefly in the negative)
- 罷手／罢手 (bàshǒu)
- 間斷／间断
- 須／须 (xū) (literary)
- 頓／顿