| 輟 | [ chuò ] to stop (before completion), to cease, to suspend |
| 輟學 | [ chuò xué ] to drop out of school, to leave off studying, to interrupt one's studies |
| 輟工 | [ chuò gōng ] to stop work |
| 輟朝 | [ chuò chaó ] to suspend business at the imperial court on account of a misfortune |
| 輟業 | [ chuò yè ] to give up work, to give up one's profession |
| 輟止 | [ chuò zhǐ ] to stop, to leave off |
| 輟演 | [ chuò yǎn ] to stop performing a play, to interrupt a stage run |
| 輟筆 | [ chuò bǐ ] to stop writing or painting, to leave off writing midway |
| 輟耕 | [ chuò gēng ] to stop plowing, to give up a life in the fields |
| 輟食吐哺 | [ chuò shí tǔ bǔ ] to stop eating and spit out |
| ⇒ 不輟 | [ bù chuò ] incessant, relentless |
| ⇒ 中輟 | [ zhōng chuò ] to stop halfway, to give up halfway, interruption, suspension |
| ⇒ 作輟 | [ zuò chuò ] now working, now stopping |
| ⇒ 弦誦不輟 | [ xián sòng bù chuò ] incessant playing of instruments and reciting of poems (idiom) |
| ⇒ 時寫時輟 | [ shí xiě shí chuò ] to write for a bit then give up, to write in fits and starts |