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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
to plug; to stop up; to stuff in / (bound form) a stopper; a cork
HSK 6
to clog up / blockage
HSK 7-9
earplug / earphone
Massachusetts, US state
the Seychelles
Sierra Leone
to be clogged up / to be congested (traffic, computer network etc)
Ossetia (ethnolinguistic region in the Caucasus Mountains)
spark plug
(Tw) the Seychelles
congestion / to block / to congest / to crowd / to choke / to cram / to fill up / to stuff / to take up all the space
to get food stuck between one's teeth
Albacete (capital city of Spain's Albacete Province)
Seville, city in Andalusia, Spain
stronghold / fort / fortification
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
(bound form) strategic stronghold
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
(bound form) to block; to obstruct
a cork
setter (dog breed)
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), German philosopher
Paracelsus (1493–1541), Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher, pioneer of toxicology and medical chemistry
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman statesman, orator and philosopher
to be at a loss for words / speechless
(Tw) Barcelona, Spain
to have a stuffy nose
(name) Spencer
to stuff oneself with food
Serbia and Montenegro (a country that existed 2003–2006)
Massachusetts, US state
piston
in order to minimally fulfill one's responsibilities / in order to get off the hook
to stuff full / to cram in / packed tight / chock full
traffic jam
Seine
Lucerne (city in Switzerland)
Basel, Switzerland
Maseru, capital of Lesotho
Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game)
myocardial infarction; heart attack
to stop / to block
Barcelona, Spain
(name) Samuel
Azerbaijan
(Tw) Azerbaijan
bottle cork / bottle stopper
Ethiopia
lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom) / fig. a blessing in disguise / it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
to carry out one's duties perfunctorily; to fulfill one's responsibility
Celtic
border fort, esp. defending narrow valley
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer
(idiom) to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously
airlock / air block / fipple (in the mouthpiece of wind instrument)
murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
to block / to clog
to block one's ears (not wishing to hear)
Serbia / Taiwan pr. [Se4er3wei2ya4]
(name) Sebastian
to obstruct
Cyprus
to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears / out of touch with reality / to bury one's head in the sand
to fill up / to cram / to stuff
affricate (phonetics)
(old) territories beyond the Great Wall
Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County, in Jiuquan City 酒泉市, Gansu
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德
(Tw) Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
constricted (feeling); pent-up; repressed
(old) territories north of the Great Wall
to repress / gloomy
choked with silt / silted up
to push into a line out of turn; to cut in line; to jump the queue
to stop up / to close up / hard to get to / out of the way / inaccessible / unenlightened / blocking
to clog; to block; to obstruct
(name) Severino
glottal stop
(slang) wow! / also pr. [wa1sei1]
(medicine) embolism
variant of 擁塞|拥塞
San Jose
to close doors and block openings (idiom); mounting a strict defense
(linguistics) plosive; stop
Serbo-Croatian (language)
Poseidon, god of the sea in Greek mythology
(Tw) Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
Montserrat (Caribbean island, a British Overseas Territory)
honest and far-seeing
plunger / (automotive) piston
ice blockage / freezing of waterway
feeler gauge
Serbian (language)
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
traffic jam
Sennheiser (brand)
pulmonary embolism (medicine)
Rosetta Stone
(coll.) to feel sick at heart; to feel stifled; to feel crushed

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