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堵

dǔ

HSK 4 Character

What 堵 means

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)

Example sentences

• 下水道堵了。
  The drains are blocked up.
• 堵住你的鼻子。
  Plug your nose.
• 这堵墙长三十码。
  The wall is thirty yards long.
• 我被交通堵塞耽搁了。
  Wǒ bèi jiāotōngdǔsè dānge le.
  I was delayed by a traffic jam.
• 每一堵墙都是一扇门。
  Every wall is a door.
• 市中心的交通都堵塞了。
  Shìzhōngxīn de jiāotōng dōu dǔsè le.
  Traffic downtown is all backed up.

Words starting with 堵

• 堵车dǔ chētraffic jam; (of traffic) to get congested
• 堵塞dǔ sèto clog up; blockage
• 堵住dǔ zhùto block up
• 堵截dǔ jiéto intercept; to block the passage of; to interdict
• 堵死dǔ sǐto block (a road); to plug (a hole); to stop up
• 堵击dǔ jīto intercept and attack (military)
• 堵塞费dǔ sè fèitraffic congestion fee
• 堵床上dǔ chuáng shàng(colloquial) to catch an adulterous couple in the act

Words containing 堵

• 拥堵yōng dǔ(of traffic) to become congested; congestion
• 围堵wéi dǔto blockade; to surround; to hem in
• 回堵huí dǔ(Taiwan) (of traffic) to be jammed; traffic backup
• 填堵tián dǔto stuff; to cram into
• 添堵tiān dǔto make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.)…
• 防堵fáng dǔto prevent; to combat; to counter
• 阿堵ē dǔ(literary) (colloquial term of the Six Dynasties period 六朝; (abbr. for 阿堵物
• 阿堵物ē dǔ wù(literary; euphemism) money (literally, "this thing")
• 交通堵塞jiāo tōng dǔ sèroad congestion; traffic jam
• 七堵区Qī dǔ QūQidu, a district of Keelung City 基隆市
• 第四堵墙dì sì dǔ qiángthe fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
• 七堵Qī dǔsee 七堵区

Characters built on 者

These share the phonetic component 者 (zhě), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 署shǔoffice; bureau; (Taiwan pr. shù) to sign
• 著zhùto make known; to show; to prove
• 诸zhūall; various
• 赌dǔto bet; to gamble
• 绪xùbeginnings; clues; mental state
• 屠túto slaughter (animals for food); to massacre
• 猪zhūhog; pig; swine
• 煮zhǔto cook; to boil

Characters that look like 堵

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 措cuòto handle; to manage; to put in order
• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
• 诸zhūall; various
• 缓huǎnslow; unhurried; sluggish
• 浦pǔriver bank; shore; river drainage ditch (old)
• 埔bùused in place names

Sounds the same

Read dǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 赌to bet; to gamble
• 睹to observe; to see
• 笃(bound form) sincere; genuine; (bound form) (of an illness) serious
• 肚tripe
• 竺variant of 笃