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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
on the road / on the way; en route
HSK 1
crossing / intersection (of roads)
HSK 1
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  *条* | 条* | *条
strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
HSK 2
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  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (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 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
highway / road / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
road / path / way / CL: 條|条
HSK 2
itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
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  *弯* | 弯* | *弯
to bend / bent / a bend; a turn (in a road etc) / CL:
HSK 4
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  *堵* | 堵* | *堵
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
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
(electricity) line; circuit; wire / (traffic) road; track; route
HSK 6
(lit. and fig.) road / path
HSK 7-9
along the sides of the road / by the wayside
HSK 7-9
road surface
HSK 7-9
to repair a road
HSK 7-9
order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
HSK 7-9
pavement / sidewalk / shortcut / makeshift road
HSK 7-9
stretch of road / section of a highway or railway
HSK 7-9
mountain road
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
road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc)
HSK 7-9
minor road; lane; pathway; trail
HSK 7-9
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
to go on a self-drive tour; to go on a road trip
toll (fee for using a road)
a plank road (built on trestles across the face of a cliff)
a road only a bird can manage / steep dangerous road
cross road / cross-shaped / crucifix / the character ten
(loanword from Mongolian) road or boundary marker made of piled up earth or stones, formerly worshipped as the dwelling place of spirits
roads open in all directions (idiom); accessible from all sides
ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey / a long and difficult road
to ban (narcotics, a movie etc) / to block (a road etc) / (Internet) to block (a user)
the Silk Road
the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line)
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
(idiom) dead end / road to ruin
winding road / road curve
branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)
Yangguan or Southern Pass on the south Silk Road in Gansu, 70 km south of Dunhuang 敦煌
to flow together / confluence (of rivers, airflow, roads) / (international) cooperation
intersection (of roads)
road on a slope; inclined path; ramp
Suhua Highway, coastal road in northern Taiwan, built on the side of cliffs above the Pacific Ocean
to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline) / to install (wiring, cable) / to construct (road, concrete slab)
ring road / closed circuit; loop
plank road built along the side of a cliff / CL: 條|条
bumpy (of a road) / limping (of a person)
road network
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  *岔* | 岔* | *岔
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)
the road ahead
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  *歧* | 歧* | *歧
divergent / side road
roller / rotating dial / (computer mouse) scroll wheel / (road roller) drum
marking line (painted on a road to guide motorists) / reticle / graticule
(of roads, lines etc) to intersect / (of people) to associate with one another; to become friends
road bridge
side street / road branching from the main street
to compromise / to take the middle road / a trade-off / eclectic
overhead / elevated (walkway, highway etc) / elevated road
to block (a road) / to plug (a hole) / to stop up
arterial road / main road / main watercourse
road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)
highway / level road
fork in the road
to clean the street / to clear the road (i.e. get rid of people for passage of royalty or VIP)
(road) tanker truck / (rail) tank car; tank wagon
to rebuild (house or road) / to overhaul
to diverge / to branch off the road / to change (the subject)
(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
in the middle of the road / to be in the way / to hold power / (fig.) to predominate / to be in vogue
dead end / (fig.) the road to disaster
ring road / circle line (e.g. rail or subway)
dead end; impasse / end of the road; final days
major road / thoroughfare / main road
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
sidewalk / side road / shoulder (of a road) / wing (soccer)
Huarong Road (traditional puzzle involving sliding wooden blocks, loosely based on an episode in Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义)
the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on the Silk Road between Tibet and the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim)
fork in a road / wrong road
old road / familiar way / beaten track / conventional behavior
Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu
winding road / roundabout route / detour / (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth)
Loulan, aka Kroraina, ancient oasis town on the Silk Road near Lop Nor 羅布泊|罗布泊
road sign
street sign; road sign; street nameplate
encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc) / around the city
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  *阡* | 阡* | *阡
road leading north and south
lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom) / fig. to do sth routinely and with ease / a walk in the park
junction / fork in road
mound; hillock / welt (on the skin); ridge (on the road surface etc)
to spread out (material) / to pave (the way, a road etc)
to be jolted around (car on a bumpy road, boat on a rough sea, aircraft experiencing turbulence) / (fig.) to undergo a rough experience
(road) intersection
lit. for enemies, the road is narrow (idiom) / fig. rivals inevitably cross paths
incoming road / origin / past history
branch road / setback / accident / hiccup
lit. to take different roads and urge the horses on (idiom) / fig. to part ways
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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