辍

to stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend

12 strokes Dict coverage rank #2,852 U+8F8D

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

车 (semantic, “cart”) + 叕 (phonetic, zhuó)

components: 车叕

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 叕

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 叕 (zhuó) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
叕 sound component	zhuó	to connect
掇	duō	to pick up, to gather, to collect
啜	chuò	to drink, to sip; to sob, to weep
惙	chuò	sad, melancholy; mournful, grieving
敪	duó	to weigh; to cut; to enter without being invited

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
时写时辍	shí xiě shí chuò	to write for a bit then give up; to write in fits and starts
不辍	bù chuò	incessant; relentless
中辍	zhōng chuò	to stop halfway; to give up halfway; interruption; suspension
辍学	chuò xué	to drop out of school; to leave off studying; to interrupt one's studies
辍工	chuò gōng	to stop work
作辍	zuò chuò	now working, now stopping
辍业	chuò yè	to give up work; to give up one's profession
辍朝	chuò cháo	to suspend business at the imperial court on account of a misfortune
辍笔	chuò bǐ	to stop writing or painting; to leave off writing midway
辍食吐哺	chuò shí tǔ bǔ	to stop eating and spit out
辍演	chuò yǎn	to stop performing a play; to interrupt a stage run
辍止	chuò zhǐ	to stop; to leave off
辍耕	chuò gēng	to stop plowing; to give up a life in the fields