Illustration: Outside a neighborhood bakery, a customer is already several steps down the pavement when the baker leans out through the doorway. The baker cups one hand beside an open mouth and holds the customer's forgotten umbrella high in the other.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

呼よび止とめる

yobitomeru

to call someone to stop

Example sentences

  1. その旅人たびびとは兵士へいしに呼よび止とめられて立たち止どまった。

    The traveler stopped at the soldier’s challenge.

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  2. タクシーを呼よび止とめるために手てをあげた。

    I hailed a taxi.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれは背せの高たかい人ひとを呼よびとめてレコード店てんへの道みちを尋たずねました。

    He stopped a tall man and asked him the way to the record shop.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 呼止

  • 呼call; call out toOnコKunよぶ
  • 止stop; haltOnシKunとまる・とめる・とどめる

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