闭塞 bìsè▶ การอุดตัน

Stroke order

闭塞 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.

• 闭 — 6 strokes
• 塞 — 13 strokes

Senses

1. to stop up
2. to close up
3. hard to get to
4. out of the way
5. inaccessible
6. unenlightened
7. blocking

Related words

• 倒闭พังทลาย, ล้มลง
• 堵塞การปิดกั้น
• 封闭ปิด
• 关闭ปิด; งับ

闭塞 is pronounced bìsè and means “การอุดตัน”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 闭塞 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.