HSK 6 · Money

停滞 tíngzhì “to stagnate” in Chinese

Traditional 停滯

What 停滞 means

  1. to stagnate
  2. to be at a standstill
  3. stagnation
  4. at a standstill
  5. bogged down

How to say 停滞

  • 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滞zhì4th tone, falling

停滞 in a sentence

  1. 阿尔及尔从不停滞不前。

    Ā'ěrjí'ěr cóng bù tíngzhì bù qián.

    Algiers never stands still.

    Sentence #8580989 from Tatoeba

How 停滞 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 滞 (zhì) with each of its parts in a different colour
滞zhìsluggish; stagnant
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 带belt · dàiSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 带 (dài) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhì.

How to write 停滞

停 11 strokes · 滞 12 strokes

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

Words related to 停滞

Words with 停

停tíng · to stop停顿tíngdùn · to pause停泊tíngbó · to anchor

Words with 滞

滞留zhìliú · to be stranded

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FAQs

停滞 (tíngzhì) means “to stagnate” or “to be at a standstill”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tíngzhì: tíng with a 2nd tone, then zhì 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, 停滞 is written 停滯. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tingzhi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 停滞 from the suggestions. Typing tingzhi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
停滞 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.