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Mythic Mandarin

堵车 (dǔ chē): meaning and stroke order

堵车 (dǔ chē) means traffic jam, (of traffic) to get congested.

堵车

Simplified
堵车
Traditional
堵車
Pinyin
dǔ chē

Stroke order of 堵车

堵

  • dǔ to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole)
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

车

  • Chē surname Che
  • chē car; vehicle
  • jū war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess)
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 車

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 堵车

  1. dǔ chē Traditional 堵車
    • traffic jam
    • (of traffic) to get congested

Radicals of the characters

堵
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 11 strokes · 土 on the left, 者 on the right
车
Radical 车 (Kangxi radical 159) in its simplified form · 4 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

堵车 in our stories

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  • 没想到，去机场的路上遇到了车祸堵车，他到登机口时，飞机刚刚关了舱门。

    méi xiǎngdào qù jīchǎng de lù shàng yùdào le chēhuò dǔchē tā dào dēngjīkǒu shí fēijī gānggāng guān le cāngmén

    But on the way to the airport he was caught in traffic after an accident, and by the time he reached the gate the plane had just closed its doors.

    From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6

Stories using 堵车

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).