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| | road (CL: 條|条) / journey / route / line (bus etc) / sort; kind | HSK 1 |
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| | crossing / intersection (of roads) | HSK 1 |
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| | road; path (CL: 條|条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | on the road / on the way; en route | HSK 1 |
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| | to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls) | HSK 4 |
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| | to bend / bent / a bend; a turn (in a road etc) / CL: 道 | HSK 4 |
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| | itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条 | HSK 3 |
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| | to pave (with paving stones) / to lay a road / (fig.) to lay the groundwork (for sth) / to give a present to sb to ensure success | HSK 7-9 |
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| | strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten | |
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| | traffic rules / rules of the road | |
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| | uphill road / slope up / fig. upward trend / progress | |
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| | road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road / fig. complicated and tricky job | |
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| | starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine | |
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| | stretch of road / section of a highway or railway | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ravenous wolves hold the road (idiom); wicked people in power / a vicious tyranny rules the land | |
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| | road maintenance tax (China) | |
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| | dead-end road; (fig.) impasse | |
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| | Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chinese infrastructure and investment strategy launched in 2013 | |
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| | trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable) | |
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| | overhead / elevated (walkway, highway etc) / elevated road | |
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| | the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line) | |
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| | order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power / a vicious tyranny rules the land | |
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| | winding road / road curve | |
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| | road congestion; traffic jam | |
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| | (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes | |
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| | the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism | |
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| | to travel cross-country; to go off-road / (attributive) cross-country; off-road | |
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| | sloping road / hill road | |
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| | mountain road | HSK 7-9 |
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| | racing bicycle; road bike | |
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| | dangerous road | |
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| | street sign; road sign; street nameplate | |
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| | through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence | |
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| | (electricity) line; circuit; wire / (traffic) road; track; route | HSK 6 |
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| | (lit.) the road through Yangguan 陽關|阳关 / (fig.) wide open road / bright future | |
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| | pavement / sidewalk / shortcut / makeshift road | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to repair a road | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to spread out (material) / to pave (the way, a road etc) | |
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| | broad and open road (idiom); fig. brilliant future prospects | |
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| | the Silk Road | |
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| | to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service) | HSK 6 |
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| | branch road / setback / accident / hiccup | |
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| | to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic | |
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| | minor road; lane; pathway; trail | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (lit. and fig.) road / path | HSK 7-9 |
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| | arterial road / main road / main watercourse | |
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| | major road / thoroughfare / main road | |
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| | lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom) / fig. to stick to one's ways / to cling to one's course | |
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| | dirt road | |
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| | twisting path / tortuous road | |
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| | lit. praise fills the roads (idiom); praise everywhere / universal approbation | |
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| | road race | |
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| | Kucha, ancient Silk Road kingdom and Buddhist center on the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert (Han-Tang period), in present-day Aksu, Xinjiang | |
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| | hard to get to / difficult to travel (i.e. the road is bad) | |
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| | zigzag road / switchback | |
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| | to lose one's way / to get lost (on the road etc) | |
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| | bumpy (of a road) / limping (of a person) | |
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| | roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides | |
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| | tarred road / asphalt road | |
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| | traffic cone; road cone | |
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| | road traffic policing | |
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| | lit. for enemies, the road is narrow (idiom) / fig. rivals inevitably cross paths | |
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| | outer ring (road or rail line) | |
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| | along the way; on the way / area beside a road | |
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| | lit. if the mountain won't move, the road will go around it (idiom) / fig. there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles | |
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| | road on a slope; inclined path; ramp | |
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| | to diverge / to branch off the road / to change (the subject) | |
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| | confluence (of two rivers) / junction (of roads) / (transport) interchange | |
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| | familiar road / beaten track | |
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| | road show or promotional tour (for a product etc) | |
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| | junction / fork in road | |
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| | downhill road / (fig.) downhill path | |
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| | to block (a road) / to plug (a hole) / to stop up | |
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| | fork in road / bifurcation / branch in road, river, mountain range etc / to branch off / to turn off / to diverge / to stray (from the path) / to change the subject / to interrupt / to stagger (times) | |
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| | brigand / (modern) uncivil driver; road hog / (PRC) person who sets up an illegal toll / (Tw) person who uses a part of the street as their private parking place | |
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| | the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom) | |
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| | Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國|秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination | |
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| | road sign | |
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| | Han dynasty name for countries in far West / may refer to Silk Road states or Alexandria or the Roman empire | |
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| | marking line (painted on a road to guide motorists) / reticle / graticule | |
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| | (road) tanker truck / (rail) tank car; tank wagon | |
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| | along the sides of the road / by the wayside | HSK 7-9 |
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| | road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. cries of complaint fill the roads (idiom); complaints rise all around / discontent is openly voiced | |
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| | to clean the street / to clear the road (i.e. get rid of people for passage of royalty or VIP) | |
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| | road or pavement laid with flagstones | |
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| | intersection (of roads) | |
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| | (road) intersection | |
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| | traffic cone; road cone | |
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| | (neologism) (used in road safety campaigns) "life-saving belt", i.e. seat belt / (astrobiology) circumstellar habitable zone | |
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| | ravenous wolves hold the road (idiom); wicked people in power / a vicious tyranny rules the land | |
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| | off-road vehicle | |
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| | Yangguan or Southern Pass on the south Silk Road in Gansu, 70 km south of Dunhuang 敦煌 | |
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