停刊 (tíng kān) — to stop publication, to cease publishing (of a… | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

Means a periodical (newspaper, magazine, journal) permanently or temporarily ceases publication. Used for the publication itself, not a publishing house.

verb

to stop publicationto cease publishing (of a periodical)

Examples

停刊。
Nà jiā bào shè qù nián tíng kān le.
That newspaper company stopped publication last year.
。
Zhè běn zá zhì yǐ jīng tíng guò yí cì kān.
This magazine has already stopped publication once.
，停刊。
Yóu yú jīng fèi bù zú, tā men jué dìng tíng kān.
Due to insufficient funding, they decided to stop publication.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

刊kānpublication

停 means cease and 刊 means publication; together cease publishing.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

亻亭停

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rén

Sound part声符shēngfú

亭

亭tíng停tíng

Same sound today

The left side 亻 is a person, and the right side 亭 gives the sound tíng; this forms 停.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

刀刀dāoknife

Sound part声符shēngfú

干

干gān刊kān

Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

刊 uses 干 to show its sound and 刀, a knife, to show its meaning.

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