罷

• Physical/Process: To cease or stop; often describes a return to a state of quiet or inactivity (e.g., weather breaking) or the conclusion of a process.
• Mental/Volitional: To give up, abandon a pursuit, or resign oneself.
• Administrative/Political: Dismissal from office; the official act of removing a person from their rank or position.

• Intransitive: The subject ceases (e.g., "the rain stopped").
• Transitive: To stop something, or to dismiss someone.
• Causative: Depending on syntax, can function as "to make [something] stop."

• vs. 止 (zhǐ): 止 often denotes a sudden halt or a prohibition; 罷 more frequently implies the ending of a process or a voluntary cessation.
• vs. 終 (zhōng): 終 emphasizes finality, the limit of a timeline, or an ultimate conclusion.
• vs. 廢 (fèi): Both can mean "to remove," but 廢 implies that the thing being stopped is now useless, ruined, or abolished entirely, whereas 罷 focuses on the act of removal or cessation.

Simplified variant: U+7F62.