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)

Radical: 土 HSK 4 v, q pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

堵 decomposes into the following components:

Semantic component: ; phonetic component: .

Words containing 堵

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 堵.

七堵
qī dǔ
回堵
huí dǔ
围堵
wéi dǔ
堵住
dǔ zhù
堵击
dǔ jī
堵塞
dǔ sè
堵截
dǔ jié
堵死
dǔ sǐ
堵车
dǔ chē
填堵
tián dǔ
拥堵
yōng dǔ
添堵
tiān dǔ

Related characters (radical 土)

Characters that share the radical .

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