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僵局

jiāng jú

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

僵局 (jiāng jú) means "impasse; deadlock". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 僵局 means

1. impasse
2. deadlock

The characters in 僵局

• 僵jiāngrigid; deadlock; stiff (corpse)
• 局júnarrow

Example sentences

• 我们必须设法打破这个僵局。
  Wǒmen bìxū shèfǎ dǎpò zhège jiāngjú.
  We must try to break the deadlock.

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