# 堵车 (dǔchē)

In Mandarin Chinese, 堵车 (dǔchē) means “traffic jam”. It is part of the HSK 4 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: traffic jam
- Pinyin: dǔchē (du3 che1)
- Traditional: 堵車
- HSK 3.0 · Level 4
- HSK 2.0 · Level 4

## Examples

- 今天早上路上堵车了，所以我迟到了。
  Jīntiān zǎoshang lùshang dǔchē le, suǒyǐ wǒ chídào le.
  There was a traffic jam on the road this morning, so I was late.

## Characters

- [堵](https://hanziro.com/word/du-block-up/) (dǔ): to block up; to be congested
- [车](https://hanziro.com/word/che-car/) (chē): car; vehicle

https://hanziro.com/word/du-che-traffic-jam/

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