堵
dǔ HSK4

block up

堵 dǔ
wall classifier measure word
a classifier used for walls

那是一堵新砌的红砖墙。

nà shì yī dǔ xīn qì de hóng zhuān​qiáng.

That is a newly built red brick wall.

block verb
to block up or stop up a road, pipe, hole, or passage

请用塞子把那个瓶口堵上。

qǐng yòng sāi​zi bǎ nà gè píng​kǒu dǔ shàng.

Please use a stopper to plug the bottle.

stifled verb
feeling choked up or suffocated with anxiety, stress, or resentment

听了这些话，我心里堵得难受。

tīng le zhè​xiē huà, wǒ xīn​li dǔ de nán​shòu.

Hearing these words, I felt a heavy weight in my heart.

wall verb
a wall (literary usage)

观者如堵。

guān zhě rú dǔ.

The crowd of spectators was like a wall.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,284th most common 25.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,958th most common 20.8 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.6 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
35.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5835

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)