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HSK
Basel, Switzerland
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
to plug; to stop up; to stuff in / (bound form) a stopper; a cork
HSK 6
Serbian (language)
(slang) wow! / also pr. [wa1sei1]
Cyprus
to clog up / blockage
HSK 7-9
(Tw) myocardial infarction; heart attack
Herzegovina
ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power / a vicious tyranny rules the land
road congestion; traffic jam
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise / it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good / also written 塞翁失馬焉知非福|塞翁失马焉知非福
border fort, esp. defending narrow valley
Ethiopia
Ossetia (ethnolinguistic region in the Caucasus Mountains)
Barcelona, Spain
piston
to fill up / to cram / to stuff
Rosetta Stone
in order to minimally fulfill one's responsibilities / in order to get off the hook
the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise / it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
Segovia (city in Spain)
the Seychelles
to have a stuffy nose
traffic jam
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 slip sb sth / to press sb to accept sth / to insert surreptitiously / to foist sth off on sb
Serb ethnic group (abbr. for 塞爾維亞族|塞尔维亚族)
(Tw) Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
to clog; to block; to obstruct
to muddle through / to fob sb off / to beat around the bush / to dodge
stronghold / fort / fortification
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
(bound form) strategic stronghold
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
(bound form) to block; to obstruct
to stuff oneself with food
setter (dog breed)
(linguistics) plosive; stop
ice blockage / freezing of waterway
the Seychelles
surname Althusser / Louis Pierre Althusser (1918–1990), Marxist philosopher
(Tw) Barcelona, Spain
congestion / to block / to congest / to crowd / to choke / to cram / to fill up / to stuff / to take up all the space
Senegal
feeler gauge
(idiom) to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously
Montserrat (Caribbean island, a British Overseas Territory)
(old) territories north of the Great Wall
to carry out one's duties perfunctorily; to fulfill one's responsibility
Massachusetts, US state
Serbia / Taiwan pr. [Se4er3wei2ya4]
Lucerne (city in Switzerland)
Issyk-Kul (a large lake in eastern Kyrgyzstan)
to stop / to block
San Jose
dexamethasone
Seine
Seville, city in Andalusia, Spain
to be clogged up / to be congested (traffic, computer network etc)
choked with silt / silted up
murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
lit. to catch sparrows blindfolded (idiom) / fig. to act blindly
(old) territories beyond the Great Wall
earplug / earphone
bottle cork / bottle stopper
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer
(coll.) to feel sick at heart; to feel stifled; to feel crushed
Sennheiser (brand)
(Tw) Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
traffic jam
(medicine) embolism
to stop up / to close up / hard to get to / out of the way / inaccessible / unenlightened / blocking
(name) Sebastian
to stuff full / to cram in / packed tight / chock full
Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game)
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
plunger / (automotive) piston
cerebral infarction
Azerbaijan
to obstruct
honest and far-seeing
Celtic
Celtic language
to block / to clog
Maseru, capital of Lesotho
airlock / air block / fipple (in the mouthpiece of wind instrument)
frontier fortress
(Tw) Azerbaijan
pulmonary embolism (medicine)
Xisaishan, a district of Huangshi City 黃石市|黄石市, Hubei
Salem, capital of Oregon / Salem, city in Massachusetts / Salem, city in India
(name) Spencer
(Tw) Bosnia and Herzegovina
spark plug
Sierra Leone
affricate (phonetics)
stuffing; filling material
Brussels, capital of Belgium
Poseidon, god of the sea in Greek mythology
glottal stop
(biogeography) the Afrotropical realm (formerly, the Ethiopian Zone)

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