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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
Massachusetts, US state
Sierra Leone
to be clogged up / to be congested (traffic, computer network etc)
Ossetia (a Caucasian republic)
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
Seville, city in Andalusia, Spain
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
(bound form) strategic stronghold
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塞* | 塞* | *塞
(bound form) to block; to obstruct
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), German philosopher
stronghold / fort / fortification
earplug / earphone
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), famous Roman politician, orator and philosopher, murdered at the orders of Marc Anthony
to be at a loss for words / speechless
(Tw) Barcelona, Spain
a blocked nose
to stuff oneself with food
Serbia and Montenegro (after break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992)
Serbia / Taiwan pr. [Se4er3wei2ya4]
piston / valve
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
the Seychelles
Lucerne, Switzerland
Basel, Switzerland
Maseru, capital of Lesotho
Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game)
myocardial infarction; heart attack
to stop / to block
Barcelona, Spain
Samuel (name)
Azerbaijan
(Tw) Azerbaijan
to get food stuck between one's teeth
a cork
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
Massachusetts, US state
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
Spencer or Spence (name)
to block / to clog
to block one's ears (not wishing to hear)
(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
Aksai Kazakh autonomous county in Jiuquan 酒泉, 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. [wa1 sei1]
(medicine) embolism
variant of 擁塞|拥塞
San Jose
to close doors and block openings (idiom); mounting a strict defense
(linguistics) plosive; stop
honest and far-seeing
Serbo-Croatian (language)
Poseidon, god of the sea in Greek mythology
Düsseldorf (Germany) / also written 杜塞爾多夫|杜塞尔多夫
Montserrat
piston
Xisaishan district of Huangshi city 黃石市|黄石市, Hubei
ice blockage / freezing of waterway
feeler gauge
Serbian (language)
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Düsseldorf (Germany)
traffic jam
Sennheiser (brand)
pulmonary embolism (medicine)
Rosetta Stone
(coll.) to feel sick at heart; to feel stifled; to feel crushed
Ethiopian Zone, aka Afrotropical realm
barrier lake; landslide dam / dammed lake
Sevastopol, port city on the Crimean Peninsula
road congestion; traffic jam

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