(lù) - road, path, route; way in Mandarin

lù

Traditional: 路

HSK 2

#628 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

road, path, route; way

Word origin

The character 路 (lù) 'road' is a phono-semantic compound: 足 (foot) gives the meaning, since a road is something walked on, and 各 (gè) supplies the sound.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 足 (foot, meaning) + 各 (gè, phonetic)

Stroke order

路

Examples

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This road is hard to travel.

？

Do you know the way to the station?

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All roads lead to Rome.

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This road leads to the seaside.

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The road to school is not far.

路 (lù) means road, path, route, or way. It is used in street names (长安路, Chang'an Road), directions (走这条路, take this road), and metaphorical contexts (人生的路, the path of life; 出路, a way out). The measure word is 条 (tiáo): 一条路 (a road). Common compounds: 路口 (intersection), 路上 (on the way), 出路 (way out/prospect), 思路 (train of thought). The proverb 条条大路通罗马 is the direct Chinese equivalent of all roads lead to Rome.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 路.

路上lù shangon the way, on the road

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This word is part of lesson 13.