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阻挠

zǔ náo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 阻撓

阻挠 (zǔ náo) means "to thwart; to obstruct (sth)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 阻挠 means

1. to thwart
2. to obstruct (sth)

The characters in 阻挠

• 阻zǔto hinder; to block; to obstruct
• 挠náoto scratch; to thwart; to yield

Sounds the same

Read zǔ náo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 阻桡variant of 阻挠

Where 阻挠 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhuó–zú (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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