瓶
颈

Neck of a bottle in Chinese: 瓶颈 (píng jǐng)

píng jǐng

neck of a bottle

HSK 3.0 Levels 7-9Traditional: 瓶頸1 example sentence

Definitions

  1. 1neck of a bottle
  2. 2(fig.) bottleneck
  3. 3problem that impedes progress

Stroke order

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瓶
颈

Zhuyin

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ㄆㄧㄥˊ

píng

ㄆ/ pㄧ/ iㄥ/ engˊ/ second tone

ㄐㄧㄥˇ

jǐng

ㄐ/ jㄧ/ iㄥ/ engˇ/ third tone

Simplified & traditional

瓶颈

Simplified

瓶頸

Traditional

Example sentences

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  • 公司的发展遇到了瓶颈。

    gōng sī de fā zhǎn yù dào le píng jǐng。

    The company's growth has hit a bottleneck.

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Related words

瓶

píng

bottle

瓶子

píng zi

bottle

花瓶

huā píng

flower vase

颈部

jǐng bù

neck

萍水相逢

píng shuǐ xiāng féng

strangers coming together by chance (idiom)

颇

pō

rather

迫不及待

pò bù jí dài

impatient (idiom)

迫害

pò hài

to persecute

迫使

pò shǐ

to force

破案

pò àn

to solve a case

破除

pò chú

to eliminate

破解

pò jiě

to break (a bond, constraint etc)

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HSK 3.0 Levels 7-9 vocabulary list

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