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胶着

jiāo zhuó

2-character word Traditional 膠著

What 胶着 means

1. to stick onto
2. stalemate
3. gridlock
4. to agglutinate

The characters in 胶着

• 胶jiāoto glue; glue; gum
• 着zheaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state

Sounds the same

Read jiāo zhuó, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 焦灼(literary) deeply worried

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