Illustration: In a home kitchen, an adult has switched off a handheld electric mixer and lifts its completely still beaters above a mixing bowl. Thick batter hangs in long strands from the metal loops instead of being flung outward.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

停てい止し

teishi

to stop, to come to a halt

Example sentences

列車れっしゃは滑なめらかに停止ていしした。
The train came to a smooth stop.
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列車れっしゃが停止ていししたので、乗客じょうきゃくはみんなどうしたのかと思おもった。
As the train came to a halt, all of the passengers wondered what was happening.
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運転者うんてんしゃは一時いちじ停止ていし線せんのところで停止ていししなければならない。
Drivers must stop at the stop line.
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Kanji in 停止

停halt; stoppingOnテイKunとめる・とまる
止stop; haltOnシKunとまる・とめる・とどめる

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