瓶颈

瓶頸

píngjǐng

noun HSK 7 #25,544

Meanings

1 neck of a bottle
2 bottleneck; problem that impedes progress

Characters

Examples

交通拥堵是城市发展的瓶颈。

Jiāotōng yōngdǔ shì chéngshì fāzhǎn de píngjǐng.

Traffic congestion is a bottleneck for urban development.

技术创新突破了生产的瓶颈。

Jìshù chuàngxīn tūpò le shēngchǎn de píngjǐng.

Technological innovation broke through the production bottleneck.

Tips

memory

Picture a bottle (瓶) — everything flows freely until it reaches the narrow neck (颈). That narrow point is the bottleneck that slows things down.

Stroke Order

瓶 píng

颈 jǐng