堵 — Chinese character
堵
dǔ
wall; to stop, to prevent, to block
- Pinyin
- dǔ
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 土 者
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 者
- Japanese
- 堵 as a kanji
Common words with 堵
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 堵塞 | dǔ sè | to clog up; blockage |
| 堵住 | dǔ zhù | to block up |
| 围堵 (圍堵) | wéi dǔ | to blockade; to surround |
| 拥堵 (擁堵) | yōng dǔ | (of traffic) to become congested; congestion |
| 堵车 (堵車) | dǔ chē | traffic jam; (of traffic) to get congested |
| 封堵 | fēng dǔ | to block; to plug up |
| 堵截 | dǔ jié | to intercept; to block the passage of; to interdict |
| 交通堵塞 | jiāo tōng dǔ sè | road congestion; traffic jam |
| 堵死 | dǔ sǐ | to block (a road); to plug (a hole) |
| 防堵 | fáng dǔ | to prevent; to combat |
| 添堵 | tiān dǔ | to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even worse |
| 堵击 (堵擊) | dǔ jī | to intercept and attack (military) |
English words written with 堵
堵 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.