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迂滞

yū zhì

2-character word Traditional 迂滯

What 迂滞 means

1. high-sounding and impractical

The characters in 迂滞

• 迂yūliteral-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire
• 滞zhì(bound form) sluggish; stagnant

Sounds the same

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

• 淤滞silted up; obstructed by silt; variant of 瘀滞
• 瘀滞(in Chinese medicine) stasis (of blood or other fluids)

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