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瓶颈

píngjǐng

bottleneck

Pebbles jam in the narrow neck of a bottle
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Characters in this word

瓶 píng

Strokes
10
Radical
瓦 — tile
Made of
并 to combine, to annex 瓦 tile
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

颈 jǐng

Strokes
11
Radical
页 — page, sheet, leaf
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 颈

Example phrases

  • 算法性能的瓶颈并不在算力,而在训练数据的可信度。 Suànfǎ xìngnéng de píngjǐng bìng bú zài suànlì, ér zài xùnliàn shùjù de kěxìndù. The bottleneck in the algorithm's performance is not computing power, but the credibility of the training data.
  • 公司发展遇到了瓶颈,需要找新的出路。 Gōngsī fāzhǎn yùdào le píngjǐng, xūyào zhǎo xīn de chūlù. The company's growth has hit a bottleneck and it needs to find a new way out.
  • 写作到了瓶颈期,他决定出去走走。 Xiězuò dào le píngjǐngqī, tā juédìng chūqù zǒuzou. His writing had reached a plateau, so he decided to go out for a walk.

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