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HSK
to walk; to go on foot / to leave; to depart / (informal) to clear off; to beat it / (of sb who gets fired or resigns) to leave the job; to get out
HSK 1
to have a pleasant journey (idiom)
HSK 2
the whole journey / all the way / going the same way / going in the same direction / of the same kind
HSK 5
to have a pleasant journey / Bon voyage!
HSK 2
street / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 1
highway / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
along the way / the whole way / (fig.) the whole time
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *路* | 路* | *路
road (CL:條|条) / journey / route / line (bus etc) / sort; kind
HSK 1
crossing / intersection (of roads)
HSK 1
road / path / way / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
expressway; highway; freeway
HSK 3
railroad / railway / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
on the road / on the way; en route
HSK 1
itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
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
(coll.) unorthodox (method etc)
line of thought; way of thinking
HSK 7-9
curb; roadside; wayside
HSK 2
lit. Sima Zhao's intentions are obvious to everyone (idiom) / fig. an open secret
crossroads / intersection
HSK 7-9
to ask for directions / to ask the way (to some place)
HSK 2
a way out (lit. and fig.) / opportunity for advancement; a way forward / outlet (for one's products)
HSK 6
to pass by or through
HSK 6
to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
uphill road / slope up / fig. upward trend / progress
anonymous state-sponsored Internet commentator
to lose the way / lost / labyrinth / labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear)
HSK 7-9
digital network
stretch of road / section of a highway or railway
HSK 7-9
calorie (loanword)
lit. read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom) / fig. acquire knowledge from study and wisdom from practical experience
road maintenance tax (China)
dead-end road; (fig.) impasse
street lamp / street light
HSK 7-9
train of thought; way of thinking
Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government plan to provide finance and engineering expertise to build infrastructure across Eurasia and northeast Africa, unveiled in 2013
Jing-Guang (Beijing-Guangzhou) Railway
Nanjing St., large commercial street in Shanghai
halfway / midway / on the way
HSK 7-9
Cyprus
midway / mediocre (quality) / midfield (soccer)
method / way / approach
HSK 7-9
to meet (sb) by chance on the way somewhere / to encounter (sth) on the way somewhere
network (computer, telecom) / Internet / Taiwanese term for 網絡|网络
sale / market / state of the market / sales event
ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power / a vicious tyranny rules the land
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
core network / backbone network
JingJiu (Beijing-Kowloon) railway
network platform
deviant path; evil ways
to return / circuit (e.g. electric) / loop
sloping road / hill road
mountain road
HSK 7-9
racing bicycle; road bike
(Tw) web application
street sign; road sign; street nameplate
scheme / artifice / tolerance / intention / motive / train of thought / brains / wit / ideas
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
labor / physical work
the Silk Road / abbr. for 絲綢之路|丝绸之路
(electricity) line; circuit; wire / (traffic) road; track; route
HSK 6
passer-by / stranger
HSK 7-9
network service
highway; expressway (abbr. for 高速公路)
to lead the way; to guide; to show the way / (fig.) to instruct
HSK 7-9
router (computing)
to take an indirect route / to waste one's time by using an inappropriate method
HSK 7-9
to repair a road
HSK 7-9
lit. when we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through (idiom) / fig. everything will turn out for the best; let's worry about it when it happens; it will be all right on the night
the Silk Road
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist
local area network / LAN
minor road; lane; pathway; trail
HSK 7-9
network operating system
to go downhill / to decline / to slump
electric circuit
the mass line, CCP term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses
to be estranged
to find a path
(lit. and fig.) road / path
HSK 7-9
lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom) / fig. to stick to one's ways / to cling to one's course
all the way; all along; since the start
to live an exhausting journey
dirt road
sequence of movements in martial arts / routine / pattern / standard method
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *路* | 路* | *路
surname Lu
see 外地
to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate
HSK 7-9
twisting path / tortuous road
to encourage the free airing of views (idiom)
(Tw) Internet
route / path traveled / distance traveled / course (of development)
HSK 7-9
way of doing sth / the right social connection
HSK 7-9
road race
subway
zigzag road / switchback
wide area network / WAN
to be in the way; to block the path

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