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交通堵塞

jiāo tōng dǔ sè

4-character word

What 交通堵塞 means

1. road congestion; traffic jam

The characters in 交通堵塞

• 交jiāoto hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends…
• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert
• 堵dǔto block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole)…
• 塞sè(bound form) to block; to obstruct

Example sentences

• 我被交通堵塞耽搁了。
  Wǒ bèi jiāotōngdǔsè dānge le.
  I was delayed by a traffic jam.
• 我们黎明时起床以避开交通堵塞。
  Wǒmen límíng shí qǐchuáng yǐ bìkāi jiāotōngdǔsè.
  We got up at dawn to avoid a traffic jam.
• 凡是大城市都有交通堵塞的问题。
  All big cities have traffic problems.
• 这个工人本来应该在中午十二点到达, 但他被交通堵塞困住了几个小时。
  Zhège gōngrén běnlái yīnggāi zài zhōngwǔ shí'èr diǎn dàodá, dàn tā bèi jiāotōngdǔsè kùn zhù le jǐge xiǎoshí.
  The handyman was supposed to arrive at twelve noon, but got stuck in a traffic jam for a few hours.