路
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road (CL:條|条[tiao2]); journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind
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- Old HSK
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- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 足 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 路
- Common rank
- #125
- Unicode
- U+8DEF
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 路
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马路 | street; road; CL:條|条[tiao2] | |
| 路上 | on the road; on the way; en route | |
| 路口 | crossing; intersection (of roads) | |
| 走路 | to walk; to go on foot; to leave; to depart; (informal) to clear off; to beat it; (of sb w… | |
| 一路上 | along the way; the whole way; (fig.) the whole time | |
| 一路平安 | to have a pleasant journey; Bon voyage! | |
| 分头路 | part (in one's hair) | |
| 公路自行车 | racing bicycle; road bike | |
| 大路 | avenue; CL:條|条[tiao2] | |
| 子路 | Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3], also known as Ji Lu 季路[Ji4 L… | |
| 路子 | method; way; approach | |
| 路人 | passer-by; stranger | |
| 一路 | the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the sa… | |
| 山路 | mountain road | |
| 水路 | waterway | |
| 中路 | midway; mediocre (quality); midfield (soccer) | |
| 头路 | clue; thread (of a story); mate; first class | |
| 心路 | scheme; artifice; tolerance; intention; motive; train of thought; brains; wit; ideas | |
| 马路口 | intersection (of roads) | |
| 上天无路，入地无门 | lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom); fig. to be at the end o… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 各 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 各 sound part | individual; each, every; all | |
| 格 | form, pattern, standard | |
| 洛 | a river in the Shanxi province; a city | |
| 略 | approximate, rough; outline, summary; plan, plot | |
| 络 | web, net; to entangle | |
| 阁 | cabinet, chamber, pavilion | |
| 酪 | cream, cheese; koumiss | |
| 胳 | arms; armpit | |
| 咯 | final particle | |
| 骆 | camel | |
| 烙 | to burn, to brand; hot iron | |
| 恪 | respectful, reverent | |
| 珞 | a kind of necklace | |
| 貉 | raccoon dog | |
| 骼 | bone, skeleton; corpse | |
| 饹 | buckwheat or sorghum noodles | |
| 铬 | chromium | |
| 袼 | gusset, cloth fitting-sleeve | |
| 硌 | hard, bulging |