停 means “stop, halt”

てい · tei

Also: stopping

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

とめる, とまる

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

テイ

JLPT N2 · Taught in grade 5 · 11 strokes

The story

A person (亻) at a roadside pavilion (亭): stopping for a rest. 停 is where things halt: a バス停 is a bus stop, 停電 a power cut, and the 各駅停車 is the local train that stops at every station.

Used in バス停 (basutei, bus stop), 停電 (teiden, power outage), and 停車 (teisha, stopping a vehicle)

More from The Order of Things

• 順 order
• 了 finish
• 永 eternity
• 複 multiple
• 翌 next
• 補 supplement
• 旧 former
• 並 line up
• 逆 reverse
• 久 long time

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.