停火 (tíng huǒ) — to cease fire, to stop fighting | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

A military term meaning both sides agree to stop shooting. 停火 is the action of stopping; 停战 is the formal ceasefire agreement itself.

verb

to cease fireto stop fighting

Examples

，停火。
Shuāng fāng zhōng yú dá chéng xié yì, xuān bù tíng huǒ.
The two sides finally reached an agreement and declared a ceasefire.
。
Nà cì chōng tū zhī tíng le liǎng tiān de huǒ jiù chóng xīn kāi shǐ le.
That conflict only had a two-day ceasefire before it started again.
停火。
Lián hé guó hū yù chōng tū gè fāng lì jí tíng huǒ.
The United Nations calls on all parties to the conflict to cease fire immediately.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

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

停 means stop and 火 means fire, together meaning to cease firing.

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.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

火 is a simple drawing of a fire, with flames shown rising upward.

Appears in

Military & Defense

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