Date: August 22nd, 2004
Cate: Chinese Word of the Day
Tags:

– Sai1 – Block, Clog, Stuff, Squeeze In

塞車 – Sai1 Che1 – Clog Car — Traffic Jam (in Taiwan!)

堵車 – Du3 Che1 – Stop Up Car — Traffic Jam (in China!)

This is one of those things that is said differently in China and Taiwan. I don’t think I know enough to characterize how different Mandarin as spoken in China and Taiwan is. I get the sense that they’re pretty different, maybe even as different as British English and American English.

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