辍
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 車 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 輟
- Common rank
- #2,852
- Unicode
- U+8F8D
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 辍
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 时写时辍 | to write for a bit then give up; to write in fits and starts | |
| 不辍 | incessant; relentless | |
| 中辍 | to stop halfway; to give up halfway; interruption; suspension | |
| 辍学 | to drop out of school; to leave off studying; to interrupt one's studies | |
| 辍工 | to stop work | |
| 作辍 | now working, now stopping | |
| 辍业 | to give up work; to give up one's profession | |
| 辍朝 | to suspend business at the imperial court on account of a misfortune | |
| 辍笔 | to stop writing or painting; to leave off writing midway | |
| 辍食吐哺 | to stop eating and spit out | |
| 辍演 | to stop performing a play; to interrupt a stage run | |
| 辍止 | to stop; to leave off | |
| 辍耕 | to stop plowing; to give up a life in the fields |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 叕 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 叕 sound part | to connect | |
| 掇 | to pick up, to gather, to collect | |
| 啜 | to drink, to sip; to sob, to weep | |
| 惙 | sad, melancholy; mournful, grieving | |
| 敪 | to weigh; to cut; to enter without being invited |