止
zhǐ HSK3

(foot), stop

止 zhǐ
only verb
merely or just

我不止一次提醒过他。

wǒ bù zhǐ yī cì tí​xǐng guo tā.

I have reminded him more than once.

prohibit verb
to prevent or forbid something from occurring

这里禁止大声喧哗。

zhè​lǐ jìn zhǐ dà​shēng xuān​huá.

Loud noise is prohibited here.

stop verb
to cease movement, action, or state

等外面的大雨完全止了，我们再出发吧。

děng wài​miàn de dà​yǔ wán​quán zhǐ le, wǒ​men zài chū​fā ba.

Let's wait until the heavy rain outside stops completely before we set off.

until punctuation
reaching a certain point in time or space

今天的讨论就到此为止，大家先休息一下。

jīn​tiān de tǎo​lùn jiù dào​cǐ wéi zhǐ, dà​jiā xiān xiū​xi yī​xià.

Let's end today's discussion here; everyone take a break first.

Frequency
Character
Written text
596th most common 351.8 per million
Movie subtitles
467th most common 314.5 per million appears in 78% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
25.4 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
36.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+6B62

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)