HSK 6 · Adjectives

闭塞 bìsè “isolated” in Chinese

Traditional 閉塞

What 闭塞 means

  1. isolated
  2. hard to reach
  3. ill-informed
  4. to stop up
  5. to close up
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • hard to get to
  • out of the way
  • inaccessible
  • unenlightened

How to say 闭塞

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale闭bì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale塞sè4th tone, falling

闭塞 in a sentence

  1. 那个山村交通闭塞。

    Nà ge shāncūn jiāotōng bìsè.

    That mountain village is hard to get to.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 住在这儿，消息很闭塞。

    Zhù zài zhèr, xiāoxi hěn bìsè.

    Living here, you don’t hear much news.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 闭塞 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 闭 (bì) with each of its parts in a different colour
闭bìto close
  • 门gate · mén
  • 才ability · cái
The character 塞 (sè) drawn as one shape
塞sèto block; to obstruct

塞 is a single shape of 13 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 闭塞

闭 6 strokes · 塞 13 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

闭塞 (bìsè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 闭塞 (bìsè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 闭塞

Words with 闭

关闭guānbì · to close封闭fēngbì · to seal off倒闭dǎobì · to go bankrupt

Words with 塞

堵塞dǔsè · to block

More words: Adjectives

扁biǎn · flat便利biànlì · convenient别扭bièniu · awkward别致biézhì · unique博大精深bódàjīngshēn · broad and profound (of knowledge or culture)薄弱bóruò · weak不可思议bùkěsīyì · unimaginable不像话búxiànghuà · unreasonable

FAQs

闭塞 (bìsè) means “isolated” or “hard to reach”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bìsè: bì with a 4th tone, then sè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 闭塞 is written 閉塞. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bise with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 闭塞 from the suggestions. Typing bise into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
闭塞 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.