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  *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
road / path / way / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
to ask for directions / to ask the way (to some place)
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
mountain road
HSK 7-9
minor road / lane / pathway / trail
HSK 7-9
to lead the way; to guide; to show the way / (fig.) to instruct
HSK 7-9
by the way / while out doing sth else / conveniently
HSK 7-9
line of thought; way of thinking
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
way of doing sth / the right social connection
HSK 7-9
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
to lose the way / lost / labyrinth / labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear)
HSK 7-9
to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate
HSK 7-9
halfway / midway / on the way
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *路* | 路* | *路
surname Lu
electric circuit
network (computer, telecom) / Internet / Taiwanese term for 網絡|网络
avenue / CL: 條|条
(lit. and fig.) the right way; the correct path; the proper course
Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路
road or pavement laid with flagstones
integrated circuit
escape route / retreat route / communication lines to the rear / alternative course of action / room for maneuver
to block sb's path / to waylay
Suhua Highway, coastal road in northern Taiwan, built on the side of cliffs above the Pacific Ocean
incoming road / origin / past history
Ji Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子, also known as 子路
digital network
thoroughfare / passage / pathway / channel
scheme / artifice / tolerance / intention / motive / train of thought / brains / wit / ideas
to travel / transport
divergent path / (fig.) wrong path
computer network
short circuit
downhill road / (fig.) downhill path
sequence of movements in martial arts / routine / pattern / standard method
waterway
along the way; on the way / area beside a road
(Tw) Internet
veined pattern / wrinkles / vein lines (in marble or fingerprint) / grain (in wood etc)
to open up a path / to make one's way through / to construct a road / (electricity) open circuit
to seek help from social connections
midway / mediocre (quality) / midfield (soccer)
the Silk Road / abbr. for 絲綢之路|丝绸之路
to take the back roads; to take the side streets; to take the small paths
(idiom) the road one must follow; the only way
suitable / to one's liking
winding road / roundabout route / detour / (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth)
livelihood
clue / thread (of a story) / mate / first class
(coll.) going on foot
familiar
trade route
pointless trip / not worth the trip
to lead the way
sale / market / state of the market / sales event
to follow the path to one's own doom (idiom) / to bring about one's own destruction
the road back to where one came from
tarred road / asphalt road
netherworld
uphill road / slope up / fig. upward trend / progress
dead-end road; (fig.) impasse
gorge
tarred road / asphalt road
Heaven never bars one's way (idiom); don't despair and you will find a way through. / Never give up hope. / Never say die.
to leave oneself a way out
shortcut
wide area network / WAN
route / path
to encourage the free airing of views (idiom)
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
fork in the road
local area network / LAN
a way to make a living / a way to survive / a way out of a predicament
the way one is following / outlet
to make way (for sth)
to use social connections / to toady to influential people
lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom) / fig. to do sth routinely and with ease / a walk in the park
virtual circuit / VC
land route / overland route
Jiangsu-Gansu railway
value added network / VAN
desperate getaway (from a battlefield) / to cut a bloody path out of a battlefield
lit. to toss a stone to find out what's ahead (idiom) / fig. to test the waters
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
labor / physical work
Sixth ring road (Beijing), opened in 2008
dead end; impasse / end of the road; final days
to find a path
to make a detour / to take the long route
to return / circuit (e.g. electric) / loop

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