Meaning & readings
stop, halt
On’yomi シ
Kun’yomi 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
Nanori どめ
Origin
This character is a picture of a foot or footprint. The shape shows a sole at the bottom with toes or a heel mark above it, representing a human foot. Because a foot that stops moving is standing still, the image of a foot came to represent the idea of stopping or halting. Over time, the picture simplified and became more abstract, but it kept this meaning of cessation or rest.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (止).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 4
- Kangxi radical
- 77
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #310 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+06B62