What is the correct way to say "stop" in Chinese?

The reasons you seldom hear someone say “Ting Zhi ” is, because there are many words have the similar but much clear meaning than “Ting Zhi”; examples are as follows.
1.Ting: is like saying “ammo” by soldiers, when a bicycle is going to hit you, you don’t have time to say “Zhi”.
2. “Ting” is an imperative mode, it is much more effective and strong attitude to express your opinions clearly and quickly.
3. When you say “I’m going to park my car in a lot”, we normally say
“I’m going to “Ting” my car in a lot”. In this example, “Zhi” is totally
unneeded.
4. When you say “The coming bus will stop here to pick up guests”, we
usually say “The coming bus will “Ting Zai (停在)” here to pick up guests”.
To use “Ting Zhi” instead of “Ting Zai” would be weird.
5. When you say “The motors, watches, machines, facilities, etc., stop
running.”, we usually say “The motors, watches, machines, facilities,
etc., “ting zhu le(停住了)” or “ting le(停了)”.A rather formal way of saying
is “Ting Zhi yun zhuan le(停止運轉了)".
6. When we don’t want to listen someone’s gibberish, in English you may
say “Stop, that’s enough”. In Chinese we might say “ni jiang gou le! or gou
le!(你講夠了! or 夠了!).
Basically, “Ting” and “Zhi” have the same meaning. A lot of Chinese words, without basic meaning, and it must combine with another word(words) to from a clear meaning.
So, you may say “Zhi” is redundant in the phrase of “Ting Zhi’. But in writing, to use “Ting Zhi” is rather formal than other ways of writing.
For example, if you need to write “The machine stop running”.
The formal Chinese translation would be “The machine “Ting Zhi” running 了/le”. And “le” means already, sometimes is optional depending on the full sentence.
If you just write “The machine ‘Ting’ running”, of course, it’s understandable; But if you have a Chinese tutor, He or She might correct your informal writing.

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