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停頓

简停顿 · 繁停頓

Mandarin · pinyin tíng dùn

to halt
to break off
pause (in speech)

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停: tíng · stop, suspend, delay; suitable
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顿: dùn · pause, stop; bow, kowtow; arrange

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2–4 · ting2 dun4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ting4 deon6

Cantonese word readings for 停頓. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

to stop (moving forward); to stay (somewhere temporarily)
to stop; to halt; to break off (e.g. production)
to pause (in speech)

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