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拥堵

yōng dǔ

2-character word Traditional 擁堵

What 拥堵 means

1. (of traffic) to become congested
2. congestion

The characters in 拥堵

• 拥yōngto hold in one's arms; to embrace; to surround; to gather around; to throng; to swarm
• 堵dǔto block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole)…

Example sentences

• 我开车去办公室，我试图尽可能早的从家里出发，以便能避开交通拥堵。
  Wǒ kāichē qù bàngōngshì, wǒ shìtú jǐnkěnéng zǎo de cóng jiālǐ chūfā, yǐbiàn néng bìkāi jiāotōng yōngdǔ.
  I go to the office by car, and I try to leave home as early as I can so that I can avoid the traffic jams.