局

侷traditional

HSK 6#591 by frequencyradical 尸

jú["n","qv"]

situation; office; classifier for games: match, set, round etc; narrow

jú

narrow

jú跼

cramped; narrow

Examples

世事如棋局。

Life is like a game of chess.

我刚从邮局回来。

I've just returned from the post office.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.