塞
塞 in English
- to plug / to stop up / to stuff in / (bound form) a stopper / a cork
- (bound form) strategic stronghold
- (bound form) to block / to obstruct
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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厕所塞住了。
The toilet is backed up.
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塞纳河穿越了巴黎。
The Seine flows through Paris.
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我不得不戴耳塞来阻隔旁边建筑工地的所有噪音。
I have to wear earplugs to drown out all the noise from the construction site next door.
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把一根棍子塞进你的屁股里。
Shove a stick up your ass.
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秘书把信塞到一个信封里。
The secretary stuffed the letter into an envelope.