滯 (zhì)
Stagnant; sluggish; to be detained.
How 滯 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 滯
- Simplified
- 滞
Components
- 氵 water
- 儿 legs
- 廿 two hands/twenty
- 冖 cover
- 巾 turban/scarf
Common words using 滯
- 停滯 tíngzhì
- stagnation; at a standstill; bogged down
- 呆滯 dāizhì
- dull; lifeless; sluggish
- 滯留 zhìliú
- to detain; retention
- 停滯不前 tíngzhìbùqián
- stuck and not moving forward (idiom); stagnant; in a rut; at a standstill
- 凝滯 níngzhì
- to silt up
- 滯後 zhìhòu
- to lag behind
- 滯銷 zhìxiāo
- to sell poorly; unmarketable; slow-moving (product, inventory etc)
- 阻滯 zǔzhì
- to clog up; silted up
- 氣滯 qìzhì
- stagnation of qi (traditional Chinese medicine)
- 淤滯 yūzhì
- silted up; obstructed by silt; variant of 瘀滯|瘀滞[yu1 zhi4]
- 滯脹 zhìzhàng
- stagflation (i.e. simultaneous inflation and stagnation)
- 瘀滯 yūzhì
- (in Chinese medicine) stasis (of blood or other fluids)
滯 in a sentence
因為颱風的關係，很多旅客滯留在機場。
Yīnwèi táifēng de guānxì, hěnduō lǚkè zhìliú zài jīchǎng.
“Because of the typhoon, many travelers were stranded at the airport.”
How common is 滯?
滯 is the 2,297th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98% of all running text.
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