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堵塞

dǔ sè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

堵塞 (dǔ sè) means "to clog up; blockage". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 堵塞 means

1. to clog up
2. blockage

The characters in 堵塞

• 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.
• 市中心的交通都堵塞了。
  Shìzhōngxīn de jiāotōng dōu dǔsè le.
  Traffic downtown is all backed up.
• 阿尔及尔的街道越来越堵塞了。
  Algiers' streets are getting congested.
• 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.

Words starting with 堵塞

• 堵塞费dǔ sè fèitraffic congestion fee

Words containing 堵塞

• 交通堵塞jiāo tōng dǔ sèroad congestion; traffic jam

Where 堵塞 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dòng–dū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǔ sè correctly.
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