píng jǐng

瓶 颈

Level:

NHSK 789－2

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1
n.neck of a bottle; bottleneck
- pèng diào le píng jǐng de píng kǒu bù fen
  碰掉了瓶颈的瓶口部分
  bumped off the bottleneck part of the bottle
2
n.metakey link prone to mishaps in the process of something
- wǒ guó de tōng xùn shì yè céng shì yán zhòng zhì yuē guó mín jīng jì fā zhǎn de píng jǐng
  我国的通讯事业曾是严重制约国民经济发展的瓶颈。
  China's telecommunications sector was a bottleneck in the growth of its national economy.
synonym
zǔ ài阻碍 nán guān难关

common measure word
"瓶颈" is often matched with measure word "个".
- 一个瓶颈
  one bottleneck

瓶颈