Chinese symbol for “crowded”
拥挤
yōng jǐ
Traditional: 擁擠
crowded; to throng; congestion
The closest CC-CEDICT match for crowded is 拥挤 (yōng jǐ), defined as: crowded; to throng; congestion.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “crowded”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 稠 | chóu | dense; crowded |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 拥挤.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拥有 (擁有) | yōng yǒu | to have; to possess; to own |
| 拥抱 (擁抱) | yōng bào | to embrace; to hug |
| 拥护 (擁護) | yōng hù | to endorse; to support |
| 拥堵 (擁堵) | yōng dǔ | (of traffic) to become congested; congestion |
| 拥护者 (擁護者) | yōng hù zhě | supporter (person) |
| 排挤 (排擠) | pái jǐ | to crowd out; to push aside |
| 挤压 (擠壓) | jǐ yā | to squeeze; to compress; (fig.) to crowd out; to put pressure on |
| 挤出 (擠出) | jǐ chū | to squeeze out; to extrude |
See also: Japanese symbol for “crowded”.
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.