终止 zhōngzhǐ▶ terminación

Stroke order

终止 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 终 — 8 strokes
• 止 — 4 strokes

Related words

• 不止más que
• 制止Basta
• 截止debido
• 终点Fin; terminar
• 终究después de todo
• 终身de por vida

终止 is pronounced zhōngzhǐ and means “terminación”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 终止 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.