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拥塞

yōng sè

2-character word Traditional 擁塞

What 拥塞 means

1. to be clogged up
2. to be congested (traffic, computer network etc)

The characters in 拥塞

• 拥yōngto hold in one's arms; to embrace; to surround; to gather around; to throng; to swarm
• 塞sè(bound form) to block; to obstruct

Sounds the same

Read yōng sè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 壅塞variant of 拥塞