to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls)

= + : Louis XIV (者) built castle walls (堵) out of dirt (土) in the space station (Ø3), but now since the passage through the space station is blocked (堵), every morning when Doggy Dog (du) commutes to work he gets stuck in a traffic jam (堵) caused by the castle walls.

堵 character breakdown

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the sun (日) is wearing a crown (⺹). This reminds me of Louis XIV, le Roi Soleil, the Sun King, which will thus be the mnemonic symbol for 者. The crown (⺹) wearing sun (日), the Sun King (者) and James II of England (zh) are taking part in a writing contest in the elevator's living room (e3) to see who of them is the best author (作者).

Characters with 堵 as component

堵 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 堵

to clog up / blockage
traffic jam / (of traffic) to get congested
to blockade / to surround / to hem in
(Tw) (of traffic) to be jammed / traffic backup
Qidu or Chitu District of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 Shi4], Taiwan
Qidu or Chitu District of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 Shi4], Taiwan
traffic congestion fee
(coll.) to catch an adulterous couple in the act
to intercept and attack (military)
to block (a road) / to plug (a hole) / to stop up
road congestion / traffic jam

Sentences with 堵

堵 currently does not appear in any sentence.