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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *路* | 路* | *路
road (CL:條|条) / journey / route / line (bus etc) / sort; kind
HSK 1
street / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 1
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
highway / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
to ask for directions / to ask the way (to some place)
HSK 2
road / path / way / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
railroad / railway / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
expressway; highway; freeway
HSK 3
the whole journey / all the way / going the same way / going in the same direction / of the same kind
HSK 5
(electricity) line; circuit; wire / (traffic) road; track; route
HSK 6
a way out (lit. and fig.) / opportunity for advancement; a way forward / outlet (for one's products)
HSK 6
line of thought; way of thinking
HSK 7-9
minor road / lane / pathway / trail
HSK 7-9
to repair a road
HSK 7-9
to lose the way / lost / labyrinth / labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear)
HSK 7-9
by the way / while out doing sth else / conveniently
HSK 7-9
mountain road
HSK 7-9
to lead the way; to guide; to show the way / (fig.) to instruct
HSK 7-9
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
halfway / midway / on the way
HSK 7-9
way of doing sth / the right social connection
HSK 7-9
to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate
HSK 7-9
to take an indirect route / to waste one's time by using an inappropriate method
HSK 7-9
veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
avenue / CL: 條|条
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *路* | 路* | *路
surname Lu
sequence of movements in martial arts / routine / pattern / standard method
short circuit
link
to start on a journey / to be on one's way
electric circuit
to return / circuit (e.g. electric) / loop
the Silk Road
to find a path
waterway
Guangdong and Kowloon railway
to travel / transport
ring road / closed circuit; loop
midway / mediocre (quality) / midfield (soccer)
the road ahead
network (computer, telecom) / Internet / Taiwanese term for 網絡|网络
land route / overland route
sale / market / state of the market / sales event
to guide / to show the way
suitable / to one's liking
piping (for water, oil, etc) / conduit
divergent path / (fig.) wrong path
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
labor / physical work
to give directions
fork in the road
the way back / return route
a way to make a living / a way to survive / a way out of a predicament
to lead the way
escape route / retreat route / communication lines to the rear / alternative course of action / room for maneuver
(lit. and fig.) the right way; the correct path; the proper course
a way out / a way to retreat / leeway
dead end / (fig.) the road to disaster
thoroughfare / passage / pathway / channel
(literary) stranger
to hasten on with one's journey / to hurry on
scheme / artifice / tolerance / intention / motive / train of thought / brains / wit / ideas
dead end; impasse / end of the road; final days
to make a detour / to take the long route
to bypass
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse / in a plight with no way out / things have reached a dead end
Ranghulu district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆, Heilongjiang
sidewalk / side road / shoulder (of a road) / wing (soccer)
old road / familiar way / beaten track / conventional behavior
winding road / roundabout route / detour / (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth)
to make way (for sth)
to go the same way
shortcut
Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子, also known as Ji Lu 季路
lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom) / fig. to do sth routinely and with ease / a walk in the park
livelihood
to block sb's path / to waylay
deviant path; evil ways
clue / thread (of a story) / mate / first class
incoming road / origin / past history
logical thinking
desperate getaway (from a battlefield) / to cut a bloody path out of a battlefield
familiar road / beaten track
the way one is following / outlet
gorge
Marlboro (cigarette)
lit. to toss a stone to find out what's ahead (idiom) / fig. to test the waters
to encourage the free airing of views (idiom)
(idiom) at home be frugal, but when traveling be prepared to spend
(sports) trajectory of the ball / method of dispatching the ball (e.g. in baseball: curveball, slider, fastball etc)
important road / main thoroughfare / fig. key position
twisting path / tortuous road
see 外地
way of proceeding / approach (to a task etc)
defile; narrow passage
to travel on foot / (informal) to run off / to abscond
route / path
Ji Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子, also known as 子路
the Silk Road / abbr. for 絲綢之路|丝绸之路

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