堵
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to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole); (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress; wall (literary); (classifier for walls)
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How 堵 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 者 (phonetic, zhě)
How to remember it
stop up · Heisig RSH #2306
土 soil + puppet
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 者
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 者 (zhě) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 者 sound component | zhě | that which; they who; those who |
| 都 | dōu | all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital |
| 猪 | zhū | pig, hog, wild boar |
| 诸 | zhū | all, many, various; surname |
| 著 | zhù | to show, to prove, to make known |
| 署 | shǔ | bureau, public office; to sign |
| 赌 | dǔ | to bet, to gamble, to wager |
| 绪 | xù | mental state; thread, clue |
| 屠 | tú | to butcher, to slaughter; massacre |
| 暑 | shǔ | hot; heat; summer |
| 煮 | zhǔ | to boil, to cook |
| 奢 | shē | exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful |
| 睹 | dǔ | to look at, to gaze at; to observe |
| 渚 | zhǔ | islet, sandbar |
| 箸 | zhù | chopsticks |
| 褚 | zhǔ | bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname |
| 赭 | zhě | hematite; ochre, reddish-brown |
| 啫 | zhě | onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning |
| 楮 | chǔ | mulberry; paper |
Words containing 堵
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交通堵塞 | jiāo tōng dǔ sè | road congestion; traffic jam |
| 阿堵物 | ē dǔ wù | (literary) (euphemism) money (literally, "this thing") |
| 七堵区 | Qī dǔ Qū | Qidu, a district of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 Shi4], Taiwan |
| 堵床上 | dǔ chuáng shàng | (coll.) to catch an adulterous couple in the act |
| 堵塞费 | dǔ sè fèi | traffic congestion fee |
| 第四堵墙 | dì sì dǔ qiáng | the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc) |
| 堵车 | dǔ chē | traffic jam; (of traffic) to get congested |
| 阿堵 | ē dǔ | (literary) (colloquial term of the Six Dynasties period 六朝[Liu4 Chao2]) this; (abbr. for 阿… |
| 堵死 | dǔ sǐ | to block (a road); to plug (a hole); to stop up |
| 回堵 | huí dǔ | (Tw) (of traffic) to be jammed; traffic backup |
| 防堵 | fáng dǔ | to prevent; to combat; to counter |
| 堵击 | dǔ jī | to intercept and attack (military) |
| 堵塞 | dǔ sè | to clog up; blockage |
| 堵住 | dǔ zhù | to block up |
| 七堵 | Qī dǔ | see 七堵區|七堵区[Qi1 du3 Qu1] |
| 围堵 | wéi dǔ | to blockade; to surround; to hem in |
| 堵截 | dǔ jié | to intercept; to block the passage of; to interdict |
| 填堵 | tián dǔ | to stuff; to cram into |
| 拥堵 | yōng dǔ | (of traffic) to become congested; congestion |
| 添堵 | tiān dǔ | to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even… |