(zǔ) - to block, to obstruct (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
zǔTraditional: 阻
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Translation
to block, to obstruct (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the mound radical 阝(a hill or barrier) gives the sense of obstruction and 且 (qiě) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 阝 (mound radical) + 且 (qiě, phonetic)
Stroke order
阻
Examples
。
Please stop him from leaving.
。
No one can stop us.
。
He tried to stop the argument.
挡。
No one can stop him.
阻 (zǔ) is a bound morpheme meaning to block; with 止 it forms 阻止 (zǔzhǐ), to stop or prevent.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 阻.
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