呼び止める
よびとめる · yobitomeru · JLPT N1 · noun
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🚕 呼 (call out) + 止める (stop): call out to make someone stop, like hailing a taxi
呼び (calling) + 止める (to stop). You call out so the driver or passerby stops. Hailing a cab is the classic case.
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.