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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dǔ | du3
English translation
to stop up
(to feel) stifled or suffocated
wall
classifier for walls
wall; to stop, to prevent, to block

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

earth

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

土者

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

zhě

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and zhě represents the sound.

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思嘉 bèi huí le , 因为 yīnwèi 从来 cónglái 喜欢 xǐhuan 想起 xiǎng qǐ 那个 nà ge mèng .

Scarlett was taken aback, for she never liked to think of that dream.

jiù 应当 yīng dāng 喝酒 hē jiǔ ma . ” 维特 Wéi tè 大夫 dàfū de zuǐ shuì .

" Then you ought to leave it alone , " countered Doctor Civet.

事实上 shì shí shàng , 任何 rènhé ǎi zhì de 纸张 zhǐ zhāng dōu 可以 kěyǐ 堵住 dǔ zhù 保持 bǎochí 图像 tú xiàng 噪声 zào shēng 举行 jǔxíng 仿 fǎng .

In fact, any low quality paper to change image noise for impersonation.

昨天 zuótiān huí jiā de 时候 shíhou ,很多 rén 堵住 dǔ zhù le .

Lots of people closed off the street yesterday when I went home.

工人 gōngrén men 堵住 dǔ zhù le 煤气 méi qì 管道 guǎn dào shǎng de dòng .

The workers plugged the hole in the gas pipe.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
wall
堵住 dǔ zhù to block up堵住 dǔ zhù
堵塞 dǔsè to clog up堵塞 dǔsè
堵车 dǔchē traffic jam堵車
围堵 wéi dǔ to blockade圍堵
填堵 tián dǔ to stuff填堵 tián dǔ
堵击 dǔ jī to intercept and attack (military)堵擊
阿堵物 ē dǔ wù money阿堵物 ē dǔ wù
堵塞费 dǔ sè fèi traffic congestion fee堵塞費

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Decomposition

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