堵
HSK 4freq #3782
Meanings
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- 1.to block up (a road, pipe etc)
- 2.to stop up (a hole)
- 3.(fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress
- 4.wall (literary)
- 5.(classifier for walls)
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Wiktionary
- 1.a unit of measure of the length and height of a wall
- 2.wall
- 3.to block up; to stop up
- 4.to encounter
- 5.stifled; suffocated
- 6.An ancient unit of measure, denoting sixteen bells or chimes hanging on a bell pendant stand.
- 7.Classifier for walls. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- 8.a surname
- 9.Zhe or Du River (river in Hubei Province, China)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tjaːʔ, *taːʔ): semantic 土 + phonetic 者 (OC *tjaːʔ).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
這堵牆長三十碼。
The wall is thirty yards long.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
堵塞 to clog up堵车 traffic jam添堵 to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.)七堵 see 七堵区[Qī dǔ Qū]回堵 (Tw) (of traffic) to be jammed阿堵 (literary) (colloquial term of the Six Dynasties period 六朝[Liù Cháo]) this堵击 to intercept and attack (military)堵截 to intercept; to block the passage of; to interdict堵死 to block (a road)围堵 to blockade堵住 to block up拥堵 (of traffic) to become congested