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停顿

tíng dùn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 停頓

停顿 (tíng dùn) means "to halt; to break off; pause (in speech)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 停顿 means

1. to halt
2. to break off
3. pause (in speech)

The characters in 停顿

• 停tíngto stop; to halt; to park (a car)
• 顿dùnto stop; to pause; to arrange

Example sentences

• 他不停顿地说了十分钟。
  He spoke for ten minutes without a pause.
• 生意停顿了以后，许多公共浴堂都添置了桑拿浴室、健身器材等的新设备，希望能吸引多点人来光顾。
  Shēngyi tíngdùn le yǐhòu, xǔduō gōnggòng yù táng dōu tiānzhì le sāngná yùshì, jiànshēn qìcái děng de xīn shèbèi, xīwàng néng xīyǐn duō diǎn rén lái guānggù.
  After business came to a halt, many bathhouses added new facilities, such as saunas and exercise equipment, in an effort to attract customers.

Where 停顿 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tiáo–tóng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tíng dùn correctly.
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