tíng
stop
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 亭 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.[d]ˤeŋ (~ *C.[d]ˤeŋ) | deng | tíng | to stop |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 81.8036% of movies
359th most common character in movies
693rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+505C |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“停,止也。从人,亭聲。” |
Sources
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