渋滞

Kana: じゅうたい

traffic jam

Example sentence

渋滞で遅れました。

じゅうたいでおくれました。

I was late because of a traffic jam.

What 渋滞 means

渋滞 (じゅうたい) is a Japanese word meaning “traffic jam”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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