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堵车

dǔ chē

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 堵車

堵车 (dǔ chē) means "traffic jam". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 堵车 means

1. traffic jam
2. (of traffic) to get congested

The characters in 堵车

• 堵dǔto block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole)…
• 车chēcar; vehicle; machine

Example sentences

• 因为堵车， 我开会迟到了。
  Because there was traffic, I was late to the meeting.
• 现在才6点半，怎么会堵车呢？
  Xiànzài cái 6 diǎn bàn, zěnme huì dǔchē ne?
  How can there be a traffic jam now, as late as 6 o'clock?
• 现在才6点半，怎幺会堵车呢？
  How can there be a traffic jam now, as late as 6 o'clock?
• 你现在出门的话，肯定会堵车的。
  Nǐ xiànzài chūmén dehuà, kěndìng huì dǔchē de.
  If you leave now, I'm sure you'll be caught in a traffic jam.
• 快要到早上的繁忙时段了，我们还不出发就要堵车了。
  Kuàiyào dào zǎoshang de fánmáng shíduàn le, wǒmen hái bù chūfā jiùyào dǔchē le.
  If we don't hit the road soon, we'll get caught in the morning rush hour traffic.

Where 堵车 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Travel logistics & transport (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǔ chē correctly.
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