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HSK
rail station / bus stop / CL: 處|处, 個|个
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *住* | 住* | *住
to live / to dwell / to stay / to reside / to stop / (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *少* | 少* | *少
few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom
HSK 1
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  *站* | 站* | *站
station / to stand / to halt / to stop / branch of a company or organization / website
HSK 1
to pull up (stop one's vehicle) / to park / (of a machine) to stop working / to stall
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *收* | 收* | *收
to receive / to accept / to collect / to put away / to restrain / to stop / in care of (used on address line after name)
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *停* | 停* | *停
to stop / to halt / to park (a car)
HSK 2
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  *卡* | 卡* | *卡
to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL: 張|张, / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里) / cassette
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *已* | 已* | *已
already / to stop / then / afterwards
HSK 3
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  *板* | 板* | *板
board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / CL: 塊|块 / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *頓* | 頓* | *頓
to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
HSK 3
to stop; to halt; to cease
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *堵* | 堵* | *堵
to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls)
HSK 4
to stop
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戒* | 戒* | *戒
to guard against / to exhort / to admonish or warn / to give up or stop doing sth / Buddhist monastic discipline / ring (for a finger)
HSK 5
to stop; to terminate
HSK 5
to stay somewhere temporarily / to stop over
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歇* | 歇* | *歇
to rest / to take a break / to stop / to halt / (dialect) to sleep / a moment / a short while
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
to plug; to stop up; to stuff in / (bound form) a stopper; a cork
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *止* | 止* | *止
to stop / to prohibit / until / only
HSK 6
local bus or train / slow train with many stops
HSK 6
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  *閉* | 閉* | *閉
to close / to stop up / to shut / to obstruct
HSK 6
to brake (when driving) / to stop / to switch off / to check (bad habits) / a brake
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *截* | 截* | *截
to cut off (a length) / to stop / to intercept / section / chunk / length
HSK 7-9
to curb / to put a stop to / to stop / to check / to limit
HSK 7-9
to be stranded (of ship) / to run aground / fig. to run into difficulties and stop
HSK 7-9
to resist / to hold back / to stop / to ward off / to withstand
HSK 7-9
to stop / to obstruct
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *栽* | 栽* | *栽
to plant; to grow / to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign) / to impose sth on sb / to stumble; to fall down
HSK 7-9
intermittent / off and on / discontinuous / stop-go / stammering / disjointed / inarticulate
HSK 7-9
to stop / to resist / to obstruct
HSK 7-9
day and night / period of 24 hours / continuously, without stop
HSK 7-9
to halt / to stop / to go no farther
HSK 7-9
to tarry / to delay / to stop over
HSK 7-9
to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)
HSK 7-9
to cease / to suspend / to break off / to stop / to discontinue
HSK 7-9
to stop; to pull back
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *休* | 休* | *休
to rest / to stop doing sth for a period of time / to cease / (imperative) don't
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  *儅* | 儅* | *儅
stop
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  *煞* | 煞* | *煞
to terminate / to cut short / to bring to a stop / to squeeze / to tighten / to damage / variant of 殺|杀
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *罷* | 罷* | *罷
to stop / to cease / to dismiss / to suspend / to quit / to finish
to stop classes / to close (of school)
bus stop sign; train station sign
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *息* | 息* | *息
breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
to fly non-stop; to fly direct (to ...)
to stop in the middle of sth / intermittent / intermittence
to stop production
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寢* | 寢* | *寢
(bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop; to cease
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *熄* | 熄* | *熄
to extinguish / to put out (fire) / to quench / to stop burning / to go out (of fire, lamp etc) / to come to an end / to wither away / to die out / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
(of a machine) to stop / to shut down / to park a plane / to finish shooting (a TV program etc) / to suspend a phone line / (of a prepaid mobile phone) to be out of credit
to stop (walking) / to halt
to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished
to stay for a time / to stop over / to lodge / to sink down (into soft ground) / leftovers
want to stop but can't (idiom) / to be unable to stop oneself / to feel an urge to continue
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *艾* | 艾* | *艾
Chinese mugwort or wormwood / moxa / to stop or cut short / phonetic "ai" or "i" / abbr. for 艾滋病, AIDS
to hold back / to check (i.e. to stop sb's advance) / to resist / esp. with negative, irresistible, unstoppable etc
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *窒* | 窒* | *窒
to obstruct / to stop up
(of a newspaper) to stop accepting incoming articles
wait a minute / stop a while
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杜* | 杜* | *杜
birchleaf pear (tree) / to stop / to prevent / to restrict
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *堨* | 堨* | *堨
dam / to stop / check
to stop / to block
(finance) stop-loss / to sell a security in response to its price dropping to one's stop-loss point 止損點|止损点
to stop menstruating (as a result of pregnancy, menopause or medical condition etc)
to call at / to stop at / berth
to run a red light / failing to stop at a red traffic light / (slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating
to stop on the way for a rest
full stop / period (punct.)
(of a pendulum) to stop swinging / (of work, production, activities etc) to come to a halt / to be suspended / to be canceled / shutdown / (sports) lockout
to stop breathing / to breathe one's last / to die / to cut the gas supply
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拫* | 拫* | *拫
to pull / to drag / to stop
to cease fire; to stop fighting / armistice; truce
to desist / to stop / to stay one's hand
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闋* | 闋* | *闋
(literary) to end; to stop / one of the stanzas (usually two) of a ci poem 詞|词 / classifier for songs or ci poems
if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
to stop / to halt / halt! / to hold resolutely (of a view, an aspiration etc)
to stagnate / to congeal / (fig.) to stop still / to freeze
lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
plan of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift stratagem / interim step
lit. a mantis trying to stop a chariot (idiom) / fig. to overrate oneself and attempt sth impossible
(old) to halt / to stop
(coll.) to work non-stop; to work around the clock
lit. a dog can't stop himself from eating shit (idiom) / fig. bad habits are hard to change
lit. to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); fig. to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop
to stop at a hostel
to stop reading
to stop (what one is doing)
(of a newspaper, magazine etc) to stop publishing
(sports) to call a time-out / to halt; to put a stop to; to put on hold
request bus stop
to stop screening a movie / to end the run of a movie
to stop breathing (as a medical condition) / (fig.) to pass out (in anger) / to have a stroke
to abandon oneself to despair / to give up and stop bothering
to flunk (Tw) / (computing) to crash / to stop working
bus stop / bus station
to stop / to contain / to deter
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *偃* | 偃* | *偃
to lie supine / to stop / to fall down
to stop halfway / to give up halfway / interruption / suspension

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