停車

ていしゃ · teisha · JLPT N2 · noun

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🚆 停車 = 停 (stop) + 車 (vehicle): a vehicle that comes to a stop

停 (tei) means stop and 車 (sha) means vehicle or car. Read together, the word literally says stop-vehicle, which describes a train halting at a station.

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.'

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