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死胡同

sǐ hú tòng

3-character word

What 死胡同 means

1. dead end
2. blind alley

The characters in 死胡同

• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 胡húnon-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous
• 同tónglike; same; similar

Example sentences

• 这是个死胡同。
  Zhè shì gè sǐhútòng.
  This is a dead-end alley.
• 那是 2025 年 4 月 26 日。下午两点前，阳光明媚，万里无云。我来到我家附近的死胡同，静静地漫步。我欣赏着花园，这让我想起了道家思想：人如何影射天：樱花的簇簇花海，如同远处的星云。人其实不必走太远。我的白人邻居芭芭拉正站在她家车道上。她和丈夫肯恩正要出门去买鸡蛋。他们家很爱吃鸡蛋。
  It's the 26th of April of 2025. Before 14:00, a sunny blue-sky afternoon, I went to my neighbourhood's cul-de-sac to meditatively walk around and around there. I admired the gardens. They reminded me of Daoism: how the microcosm reflects the macrocosm: The puffs of sakura would be a nebula afar. One need not really travel too far. Barb my white neighbour was at her driveway. She and her husband Ken would be going out to buy eggs. They eat many eggs.