堵

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to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole); (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress; wall (literary); (classifier for walls)

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

土 meaning “earth” + 者 sound ( zhě )

Components 土者

stop up · Heisig RSH #2306

土 soil + puppet

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
交通堵塞	jiāo tōng dǔ sè	road congestion; traffic jam
阿堵物	ē dǔ wù	(literary) (euphemism) money (literally, "this thing")
七堵区	Qī dǔ Qū	Qidu, a district of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 Shi4], Taiwan
堵床上	dǔ chuáng shàng	(coll.) to catch an adulterous couple in the act
堵塞费	dǔ sè fèi	traffic congestion fee
第四堵墙	dì sì dǔ qiáng	the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
堵车	dǔ chē	traffic jam; (of traffic) to get congested
阿堵	ē dǔ	(literary) (colloquial term of the Six Dynasties period 六朝[Liu4 Chao2]) this; (abbr. for 阿…
堵死	dǔ sǐ	to block (a road); to plug (a hole); to stop up
回堵	huí dǔ	(Tw) (of traffic) to be jammed; traffic backup
防堵	fáng dǔ	to prevent; to combat; to counter
堵击	dǔ jī	to intercept and attack (military)
堵塞	dǔ sè	to clog up; blockage
堵住	dǔ zhù	to block up
七堵	Qī dǔ	see 七堵區\|七堵区[Qi1 du3 Qu1]
围堵	wéi dǔ	to blockade; to surround; to hem in
堵截	dǔ jié	to intercept; to block the passage of; to interdict
填堵	tián dǔ	to stuff; to cram into
拥堵	yōng dǔ	(of traffic) to become congested; congestion
添堵	tiān dǔ	to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even…

Characters sharing the sound component 者 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
者 sound part	zhě	that which; they who; those who
都	dōu	all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital
猪	zhū	pig, hog, wild boar
诸	zhū	all, many, various; surname
著	zhù	to show, to prove, to make known
署	shǔ	bureau, public office; to sign
赌	dǔ	to bet, to gamble, to wager
绪	xù	mental state; thread, clue
屠	tú	to butcher, to slaughter; massacre
暑	shǔ	hot; heat; summer
煮	zhǔ	to boil, to cook
奢	shē	exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful
睹	dǔ	to look at, to gaze at; to observe
渚	zhǔ	islet, sandbar
箸	zhù	chopsticks
褚	zhǔ	bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname
赭	zhě	hematite; ochre, reddish-brown
啫	zhě	onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning
楮	chǔ	mulberry; paper