僵 局

jiāngjú

“Impasse” in Chinese is 僵局 (jiāngjú).

Meaning

impasse
deadlock

Example

我们必须设法打破这个僵局。

We must try to break the deadlock.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

jiāngHSK 7-915 strokesrigid júHSK 47 strokesnarrow

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