tíng in a sentence

Stop

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 11 sentences

停 (tíng) means Stop. Below are 11 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

雨终于 了。

Yǔ zhōngyú tíng le.

The rain has finally stopped.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 ·

车就 在门口。

Chē jiù tíng zài ménkǒu.

The car is parked right by the door.

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这里不允许 车。

Zhèlǐ bù yǔnxǔ tíng chē.

Parking is not allowed here.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 允许

我们在加油站 一下。

Wǒmen zài jiāyóuzhàn tíng yíxià.

Let us stop at the petrol station for a moment.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 加油站

了,我们继续走吧。

Yǔ tíng le, wǒmen jìxù zǒu ba.

The rain has stopped; let us carry on walking.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 继续

From the graded readers

可是从那天起,我就再也没有 过。

kěshì cóng nà / nèi tiān qǐ, wǒ jiù zài yě méiyǒu tíng guò.

But from that day on I never stopped again.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running

李老师跟我说:“慢一点儿没关系,别 下来。”

lǐ lǎoshī gēn wǒ shuō:" màn yīdiǎn ér méiguānxi, bié tíngxìalái."

Teacher Li said to me, "Slower is fine — just don't stop."

Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher

了大概三秒钟——那三秒钟对我来说像三个小时。

wǒ tíng le / liǎo / liào dàgài sān miǎo zhōng—— nà / nèi sān miǎo zhōng duì wǒ láishuō xiàng sān gè xiǎoshí.

I stopped for about three seconds — three seconds that felt like three hours to me.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech

From the travel phrasebook

请靠边

Qǐng kào biān tíng.

Please pull over.

Travel phrasebook · Taxis and ride-hailing

这儿就行。

Tíng zhèr jiù xíng.

Here is fine.

Travel phrasebook · Taxis and ride-hailing

这儿可以吗?

Tíng zhèr kěyǐ ma?

Can I stop here?

Travel phrasebook · Taxis and ride-hailing

Questions about 停

How is 停 used in a sentence?

This page shows 11 sentences using 停 (tíng, "Stop"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 停 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 停 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 停 an HSK word?

Yes — 停 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 停?

The dictionary page for 停 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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