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堵车

dǔchē

traffic jam

HSK 4 · Topic “On the road”
Cars stopped on a road
Memory picture

Characters in this word

堵 dǔ

Strokes
11
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
土 soil, earth 者 that which
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

车 chē

Strokes
4
Radical
车 — cart, vehicle
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 今天堵车了。 Jīn tiān dǔ chē le. There is a traffic jam today.
  • 上班又堵车。 Shàng bān yòu dǔ chē. Traffic is jammed again on the way to work.
  • 堵车很烦人。 Dǔ chē hěn fán rén. Traffic jams are very annoying.

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