Chinese symbol for “constricted”

郁塞

yù sè

Traditional: 鬱塞

constricted (feeling); pent-up; repressed

The closest CC-CEDICT match for constricted is 郁塞 (yù sè), defined as: constricted (feeling); pent-up; repressed.

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Characters and stroke order

郁 yù

melancholy; dense growth

radical 163 ⾢ · 9 strokes

塞 sè

to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress

radical 32 ⼟ · 13 strokes

Traditional forms

鬱 yù

Related words

Other words that share a character with 郁塞.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
忧郁 (憂鬱)	yōu yù	sullen; depressed; melancholy; dejected
郁闷 (鬱悶)	yù mèn	gloomy; depressed
抑郁 (抑鬱)	yì yù	depressed; despondent; gloomy
浓郁 (濃郁)	nóng yù	rich; strong
抑郁症 (抑鬱症)	yì yù zhèng	clinical depression
忧郁症 (憂鬱症)	yōu yù zhèng	(psychology) depression
堵塞	dǔ sè	to clog up; blockage
活塞	huó sāi	piston

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.