HSK 5 · Adjectives

拥挤 yōngjǐ “crowded” in Chinese

Traditional 擁擠

What 拥挤 means

  1. crowded
  2. to throng
  3. congestion

How to say 拥挤

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale拥yōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale挤jǐ3rd tone, dipping

拥挤 in a sentence

  1. 上下班时间，公共汽车特别拥挤。

    Shàngxiàbān shíjiān, gōnggòng qìchē tèbié yōngjǐ.

    Buses are especially crowded at peak hour.

    Sentence #5147509 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这个房间很拥挤。

    Zhè ge fángjiān hěn yōngjǐ.

    This room is crowded.

    Sentence #9578359 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 晴天，海滩总是很拥挤。

    Qíngtiān, hǎitān zǒngshì hěn yōngjǐ.

    On sunny days, the beach is always crowded.

    Sentence #3608133 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 拥挤 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 拥 (yōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
拥yōngto hold in one’s arms; to embrace
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 用use · yòngSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 用 (yòng) hints at the sound. Compare it with yōng.

The character 挤 (jǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
挤jǐto crowd in
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 齐even · qíSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 齐 (qí) hints at the sound. Compare it with jǐ.

How to write 拥挤

拥 8 strokes · 挤 9 strokes

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

Words related to 拥挤

Words with 拥

拥抱yōngbào · to embrace拥护yōnghù · to support拥有yōngyǒu · to have

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FAQs

拥挤 (yōngjǐ) means “crowded” or “to throng”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yōngjǐ: yōng with a 1st tone, then jǐ with a 3rd 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, 拥挤 is written 擁擠. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yongji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 拥挤 from the suggestions. Typing yongji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
拥挤 is an HSK 5 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.