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止 kanji
stop, halt
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
とまる-どまりとめる-とめる-どめとどめるとどめとどまるやめるやむ-やむよす-さす-さし
Words with 止
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —黙止keeping quiet; taking no measures
- —閉止stoppage
- —諫止dissuasion
- —底止cessation
- —止水still water; stagnant water; stopping the flow of water
- —止揚sublation
- —拒止refusal
- —止観calm abiding and clear observation (Tendai meditation); Tendai
- —解止termination
- —避止abstention
- —発止with a loud clack
- —係止locking; mooring
- —封止sealing; seal
- —止渇moistening a dry mouth or throat (to relieve thirst)
- —容止demeanor; behavior; deportment
- —止観Zhiguan (Mohe Zhiguan, Buddhist text by Guanding, 594 CE)
- —休止符rest (sign)
- —再禁止reimposition of an embargo; reprohibition
- —止血剤hemostatic agent (haemostatic); styptic
- —終止形plain form (of a Japanese verb or adjective); dictionary form; predicative form