The kanji where the wind stops

Start with 風, the kanji for wind. Keep its outer frame and take away what is inside. Then put 止, stop, in the empty space.

Wind, stopped. That is 凪, nagi: the calm when the wind dies and the sea goes flat. Dictionaries mark it as a kokuji, a kanji made in Japan.

止 itself has a long history. Its oldest form was a drawing of a footprint, and it later came to mean to stay or to stop.

Japanese speaks of a morning nagi and an evening nagi. The whole character takes six strokes: two for the wind frame, four for stop.