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First opened Sunday, May 9, 2021

停止

ていし

  • flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

suspension, interruption, stoppage

JLPT N2Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verbintransitive verb漢語 · Sino-Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 停止

In a sentence

  • 運転(うんてん)者(しゃ)は一時(いちじ)停止(ていし)線(せん)のところで停止(ていし)しなければならない。

    Drivers must stop at the stop line.

    Tatoeba #2604271, translation #2604272

  • 大型(おおがた)と小型(こがた)の2台(だい)の飛行機(ひこうき)が、ハンガー内(ない)で停止(ていし)していました。

    Two airplanes, one large and one small, were at rest in the hangar.

    Tatoeba #75898, translation #327820

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese
Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

Also opened on May 9

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