HSK 6 · Verbs

停顿 tíngdùn “to pause” in Chinese

Traditional 停頓

What 停顿 means

  1. to pause
  2. to halt
  3. to break off
  4. pause (in speech)

How to say 停顿

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale停tíng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale顿dùn4th tone, falling

停顿 in a sentence

  1. 他不停顿地说了十分钟。

    Tā bù tíngdùn de shuō le shí fēnzhōng.

    He spoke for ten minutes without a pause.

    Sentence #1021011 from Tatoeba

How 停顿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 停 (tíng) with each of its parts in a different colour
停tíngto stop
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 亭pavilion · tíngSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 亭 (tíng) hints at the sound. Compare it with tíng.

The character 顿 (dùn) with each of its parts in a different colour
顿dùnto stop
  • 屯village · túnSound part
  • 页page · xiéMeaning part

页 hints at the meaning (page); 屯 (tún) hints at the sound. Compare it with dùn.

How to write 停顿

停 11 strokes · 顿 10 strokes

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停顿 (tíngdùn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 停顿 (tíngdùn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 停顿

Words with 停

停tíng · to stop停滞tíngzhì · to stagnate停泊tíngbó · to anchor

Words with 顿

顿dùn · measure word for meals顿时dùnshí · immediately整顿zhěngdùn · to rectify

More words: Common Verbs

调和tiáohé · to reconcile调剂tiáojì · to adjust调节tiáojié · to adjust挑衅tiǎoxìn · to provoke推翻tuīfān · to overthrow涂抹túmǒ · to smear脱离tuōlí · to break away from拖延tuōyán · to delay

FAQs

停顿 (tíngdùn) means “to pause” or “to halt”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tíngdùn: tíng with a 2nd tone, then dùn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 停顿 is written 停頓. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tingdun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 停顿 from the suggestions. Typing tingdun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
停顿 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.