Japanese word
渋滞
じゅうたい
In your course · Chapter 24
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 1,125 in the course corpus
Meanings
- traffic jam
- (traffic) congestion
- gridlock
- delay
- stagnation
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 渋
- On reading:
- シュウ、ジュウ
- Kun reading:
- しぶ、しぶ.い、しぶ.る
- Meanings:
- astringent, hesitate, reluctant, have diarrhea
- 滞
- On reading:
- タイ、テイ
- Kun reading:
- とどこお.る
- Meanings:
- stagnate, be delayed, overdue, arrears
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))