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辍

chuò

Character Traditional 輟

What 辍 means

1. to stop (before completion)
2. to cease
3. to suspend

Example sentences

• 他们辍学了。
  Tāmen chuòxué le.
  They dropped out of school.

Words starting with 辍

• 辍学chuò xuéto drop out of school; to leave off studying; to interrupt one's studies
• 辍工chuò gōngto stop work
• 辍朝chuò cháoto suspend business at the imperial court on account of a misfortune
• 辍业chuò yèto give up work; to give up one's profession
• 辍止chuò zhǐto stop; to leave off
• 辍演chuò yǎnto stop performing a play; to interrupt a stage run
• 辍笔chuò bǐto stop writing or painting; to leave off writing midway
• 辍耕chuò gēngto stop plowing; to give up a life in the fields
• 辍食吐哺chuò shí tǔ bǔto stop eating and spit out

Words containing 辍

• 不辍bù chuòincessant; relentless
• 中辍zhōng chuòto stop halfway; to give up halfway; interruption
• 作辍zuò chuònow working, now stopping
• 时写时辍shí xiě shí chuòto write for a bit then give up; to write in fits and starts

Characters built on 叕

These share the phonetic component 叕 (zhuó), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 啜chuò(literary) to drink; to sip; to sob
• 掇duōto pick up; to collect; to gather up
• 裰duōto mend clothes
• 惙chuòmournful; uncertain

Characters that look like 辍

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 微wēitiny; miniature; slightly
• 搬bānto move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 缀zhuìto sew; to stitch together; to combine
• 楣méilintel; crossbeam
• 堀kūcave; hole

Sounds the same

Read chuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 啜(literary) to drink; to sip; to sob
• 绰(bound form) ample; spacious; (literary) graceful; used in 绰号
• 龊used in 龌龊
• 婼recalcitrant
• 婥used in 婥约
• 辶to walk (side part of split character)
• 㲋ancient name for an animal similar to rabbit but bigger
• 歠(literary) to drink; to sip; gruel
• 畷raised path between fields
• 磭big lip
• 辵to walk (side part of split character)
• 醊pour libation on ground