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堵塞 meaning in English

dǔsè

to clog up; blockage

HSK 7-9verb24 strokes

Meaning of 堵塞

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

dǔsè
  1. to clog up
  2. blockage

堵塞 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

市shì中zhōng心xīn的de交jiāo通tōng都dōu堵dǔ塞sè了le。
Traffic downtown is all backed up.
阿ā尔ěr及jí尔ěr的de街jiē道dào越yuè来lái越yuè堵dǔ塞sè了le。
Algiers' streets are getting congested.
我wǒ们men黎lí明míng时shí起qǐ床chuáng以yǐ避bì开kāi交jiāo通tōng堵dǔ塞sè。
We got up at dawn to avoid a traffic jam.
凡fán是shì大dà城chéng市shì都dōu有yǒu交jiāo通tōng堵dǔ塞sè的de问wèn题tí。
All big cities have traffic problems.
我wǒ被bèi交jiāo通tōng堵dǔ塞sè耽dān搁gē了le。
I was delayed by a traffic jam.

Stroke order for each character

Open a character for its meaning, components and more words.

堵 dǔ · to block up · 11 strokes

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塞 sāi · to plug · 13 strokes

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Related words

Words that share a character with 堵塞.

堵车dǔchētraffic jam; (of traffic) to get congested
堵住dǔzhùto block up
要塞yàosàistronghold; fort
塞满sāimǎnto stuff full; to cram in
塞车sāichētraffic jam
哇塞wāsāi(slang) wow!; also pr. [wa1sei1]
阻塞zǔsèto block; to clog
活塞huósāipiston
塞子sāizicork; plug
耳塞ěrsāiearplug; earphone

Questions about 堵塞

What does 堵塞 mean?

堵塞 (dǔsè) means "to clog up; blockage" and is used as a verb.

How do you write 堵塞?

堵塞 is made of 2 characters: 堵 (11 strokes), 塞 (13 strokes). That is 24 strokes in total.

Is 堵塞 an HSK word?

Yes. 堵塞 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.

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