Chinese word dictionary

添堵

tiān dǔ · to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even worse

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Word information

Simplified添堵

Traditional添堵

Pinyintiān dǔ

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Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

添tiān

to add, to append, to increase, to replenish

堵dǔ

wall; to stop, to prevent, to block

How to learn 添堵

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Words with the same characters

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堵车dǔchē

traffic jam; (of traffic) to get congested

堵dǔ

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)

添tiān

to add; to increase; to replenish

添加tiānjiā

to add; to increase

堵塞dǔsè

to clog up; blockage

画蛇添足huàshé-tiānzú

lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous; to overdo it