胶着

Traditional form:

膠著

Pinyin (reading):

jiāozhuó

Definitions:

• to stick onto
• stalemate
• gridlock
• to agglutinate

Characters:

• 胶 - glue, gum, resin, rubber; sticky; to glue
• 着 - to make a move, to take action

Traditional characters:

• 膠 - glue, gum, resin, rubber; sticky; to glue
• 著 - to show, to prove, to make known