停
tíng · HSK 2
to stop; to halt
🛑 停 = 亻(person) + 亭 (pavilion) — a person stops at a pavilion to rest
亭 (tíng, pavilion) also gives 停 its sound. A traveler halts at a roadside pavilion, so 停 carries the senses of stop, stay, and pause.
停 — person 亻 + pavilion 亭
A semantic-phonetic compound: 亻 (person) gives the meaning, while 亭 (pavilion, also pronounced tíng) supplies the sound. The image is of a person stopping at a roadside pavilion to rest, which yields the modern senses 'to stop, halt, park.'