อุป สรรค
“อุป สรรค” (у пасок) — obstacle; hindrance in Thai. Noun, level B1. A long but frequent word from Pali: any obstacle on the way — a stone, a law, a lack of money. Read it whole. In a live sentence: “อุป สรรค ที่ ใหญ่ ที่ สุด คือ การ ขาด แคลน เว ลา” — The biggest obstacle is the lack of time. Written with the characters อ, ุ, ป, ส, ร, ร, ค. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | อุป สรรค |
| Read in Latin letters | у пасок |
| Translation | obstacle; hindrance |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
A long but frequent word from Pali: any obstacle on the way — a stone, a law, a lack of money. Read it whole
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- อุป สรรค ที่ ใหญ่ ที่ สุด คือ การ ขาด แคลน เว ลาу пасок ти йай ти сут кхы кан кхат клэн ве лааThe biggest obstacle is the lack of time
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “obstacle; hindrance” in Thai?
«อุป สรรค», read “у пасок”. In a live sentence: “อุป สรรค ที่ ใหญ่ ที่ สุด คือ การ ขาด แคลน เว ลา” — The biggest obstacle is the lack of time. Noun, level B1; written with the characters อ, ุ, ป, ส, ร, ร, ค.
How is “อุป สรรค” written in Latin letters?
у пасок. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
A long but frequent word from Pali: any obstacle on the way — a stone, a law, a lack of money. Read it whole. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.