停止
ていし · teishi · JLPT N2 · noun
stoppage
🛑 停 (stop) + 止 (halt) = two stop-characters combined into one word
停 means stop or park, and 止 means halt or cease. Pairing them gives ていし, a formal word for suspension or stoppage.
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.'
止 — pictograph of a foot/toe
止 originally depicted a human foot with toes, shown as a footprint on the ground. From this concrete image of a foot it came to mean 'to stop' or 'halt' — the place where a step ends. It also serves as a component in many characters relating to feet, walking, or stopping, such as 步 and 正.