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淤滞

yū zhì

2-character word Traditional 淤滯

What 淤滞 means

1. silted up
2. obstructed by silt
3. variant of {瘀滞|yū zhì}

The characters in 淤滞

• 淤yūsilt; river sludge; to silt up
• 滞zhì(bound form) sluggish; stagnant

Sounds the same

Read yū zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 瘀滞(in Chinese medicine) stasis (of blood or other fluids)
• 迂滞high-sounding and impractical

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