止

See also: 只, 足, and 𝍌

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 𣥂
• 龰 (when used as a bottom radical)

Note that 龰 may also be a component of the radicals 疋 (𤴓/𤴔), 辵 (辶), 走, and 足 (⻊/𧾷).

Han character

止 (Kangxi radical 77, 止+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 卜中一 (YLM), four-corner 2110₀, composition ⿱⿰丨⺊一 or ⿻上丨 or ⿻⺊丄)

1. Kangxi radical #77, ⽌.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/止
• 阯, 𠯽, 址, 扯, 沚, 杫, 祉, 砋, 耻, 趾, 訨(𫟞), 頉, 企, 芷, 齒(齿), 凪
• 之, 足 (originally contain 止)

Descendants

• と (Hiragana character derived from Man'yōgana)
• ト (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 573, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16253
• Dae Jaweon: page 961, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1435, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6B62

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		止

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 止
Shang		Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (止) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
祉	*kʰlɯʔ
址	*kjɯʔ
止	*kjɯʔ
趾	*kjɯʔ
芷	*kjɯʔ
沚	*kjɯʔ
阯	*kjɯʔ
齒	*kʰjɯʔ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a footprint, originally meaning "foot". The derivative 趾 (OC *kjɯʔ) refers to the original meaning. Compare 手 (“hand”). Note that in oracle script, composed of 3 toes and a sole.

Compare to 夊, 夂, which have similar shape in oracle script, but pointing down (toe pointing right), and 𡕒 (as in right side of 舛, roughly ヰ, toe pointing left), hence different evolution.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chí
• Northern Min (KCR): cǐ
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chih³
    • Yale: jř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chí
    • Hakka Romanization System: ji^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ji³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡si³¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cǐ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyiX

Rime
Character	止
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Öffnen Sie
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	諸市切
Baxter	tsyiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiəX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*təʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kjɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	止
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyiX ›
Old Chinese	/*təʔ/
Englisch	foot; stop
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	止
Reading #	1/1
No.	17297
Phonetic component	止
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	止
Old Chinese	/*kjɯʔ/
Notes	趾初文

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 止

1. ^† foot
2. to stop; to halt

   休止  ―  xiūzhǐ  ―  to stop

3. to bring to an end; to stop; to relieve

   止癢／止痒  ―  zhǐyǎng  ―  to stop itching (irritation)

4. to end; to finish
5. only
6. 71st tetragram of the Taixuanjing

Antonyms

• (stop): 始 (shǐ)

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

止

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. (とめる): to stop
2. (やめる): to stop, to terminate

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kun: とまる (tomaru, 止まる, Jōyō)、とめる (tomeru, 止める, Jōyō)、とどまる (todomaru, 止まる)、とどめる (todomeru, 止める)、やむ (yamu, 止む)、やめる (yameru, 止める)、あし (ashi, 止)

Compounds

• 遏止(あっし) (asshi)
• 一乗止観院(いちじょうしかんいん) (ichijōshikan'in)
• 駅止(えきどめ) (ekidome)
• 襟止(えりどめ) (eridome)
• 依止(えじ) (eji)
• 乎古止点(おことてん) (okototen)
• 核抑止(かくよくし) (kakuyokushi)
• 鎌止(かまどめ) (kamadome)
• 川止(かわどめ) (kawadome)
• 諫止(かんし) (kanshi)
• 客止(きゃくどめ) (kyakudome)
• 休止(きゅうし) (kyūshi)
• 競業避止(きゅうぎょうひし) (kyūgyōhishi)
• 拒止(きょし) (kyoshi)
• 挙止(きょし) (kyoshi)
• 禁止(きんし) (kinshi)
• 鞍作止利(くらつくりのとり) (kuratsukurinotori)
• 車止(くるまどめ) (kurumadome)
• 止観(しかん) (shikan)
• 止観業(しかんごう) (shikangō)
• 止汗剤(しかんざい) (shikanzai)
• 止観十乗(しかんじゅうじょう) (shikanjūjō)
• 止血(しけつ) (shiketsu)
• 止止不須説(ししふしゅせつ) (shishifushusetsu)

• 止瀉剤(ししゃざい) (shishazai)
• 止宿(ししゅく) (shishuku)
• 止水(しすい) (shisui)
• 止痛(しつう) (shitsū)
• 車輪止(しゃりんどめ) (sharindome)
• 臭気止(しゅうきどめ) (shūkidome)
• 終止(しゅうし) (shūshi)
• 笑止(しょうし) (shōshi)
• 止揚(しよう) (shiyō)
• 止痢剤(しりざい) (shirizai)
• 真言止観(しんごんしかん) (shingonshikan)
• 進止(しんし) (shinshi)
• 止住(しじゅう) (shijū)
• 止動方角(しどうほうがく) (shidōhōgaku)
• 制止(せいし) (seishi)
• 静止(せいし) (seishi)
• 咳止(せきどめ) (sekidome)
• 沮止(そし) (soshi)
• 阻止(そし) (soshi)
• 体言止(たいげんどめ) (taigendome)
• 中止(ちゅうし) (chūshi)
• 丁丁発止(ちょうちょうはっし) (chōchōhasshi)
• 血止(ちどめ) (chidome)
• 停止(ていし) (teishi)

• 底止(ていし) (teishi)
• 天台止観(てんだいしかん) (tendaishikan)
• 止木(とめぎ) (tomegi)
• 止句(とめく) (tomeku)
• 止相場(とめそうば) (tomesōba)
• 止針(とめばり) (tomebari)
• 止偏(とめへん) (tomehen)
• 止弁(そめべん) (someben)
• 廃止(はいし) (haishi)
• 波止場(はとば) (hatoba)
• 船止(ふなどめ) (funadome)
• 閉止(へいし) (heishi)
• 摩訶止観(まかしかん) (makashikan)
• 明鏡止水(めいきょうしすい) (meikyōshisui)
• 黙止(もくし) (mokushi)
• 山止(やまどめ) (yamadome)
• 雪止(ゆきどめ) (yukidome)
• 容止(ようし) (yōshi)
• 抑止(よくし) (yokushi)
• 乎古止点(おことてん) (okototen)
• 魚鳥止(ぎょうちょうどめ) (gyōchōdome)
• 動止(どうし) (dōshi)
• 防止(ぼうし) (bōshi)

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Korean

Hanja

止 • (ji)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 지 (revised: ji, McCune–Reischauer: chi, Yale: ci)
  • Name (hangeul): 그칠
    

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 止 (chỉ)

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