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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *路* | 路* | *路
road (CL:條|条) / journey / route / line (bus etc) / sort; kind
HSK 1
on the road / on the way; en route
HSK 1
itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
en route
HSK 4
to travel along a route (of vehicles etc)
HSK 5
(electricity) line; circuit; wire / (traffic) road; track; route
HSK 6
journey; travel route; distance of travel / course (of history) / stroke (of a piston) / (Tw) (computing) process
HSK 6
route / path traveled / distance traveled / course (of development)
HSK 7-9
to take an indirect route / to waste one's time by using an inappropriate method
HSK 7-9
to take a circular (or circuitous) route / to do a circuit / (of a planet) to orbit / (of a sailor) to circumnavigate / to take a detour / to bypass
HSK 7-9
bus or tram stop / intermediate stop (on route of ship, plane etc) / port of call / stopover
(of fuse wire) to melt; to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID)
routing (in computer networks)
network router / gateway (to Internet or between networks)
stop (on a bus or train route)
path / route / method / ways and means
delimited area / defined section of a train or bus route / numerical range / (math.) interval
air or shipping route
(literary) to be routed (in a war) / to suffer defeat (in sports etc)
land route / overland route
roundabout route / circuitous / tortuous / to outflank / indirect / roundabout
the way back / return route
escape route / retreat route / communication lines to the rear / alternative course of action / room for maneuver
(military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas
Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi / "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces
esophagus; gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route
to make a detour / to take the long route
watercourse (river, canal, drain etc) / water route / lane (in a swimming pool)
to take an alternate route (idiom) / to find an alternative / to take a different approach / to blaze a new trail
winding road / roundabout route / detour / (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth)
different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same end
sinuous / meandering / to take a circuitous route / to toss about / vicissitudes / variant of 婉轉|婉转
(of troops) to be routed and dispersed
route for providing foodstuff
to go by a roundabout route / to take a detour / (medicine or civil engineering) bypass
(idiom) (of troops) to be utterly routed and dispersed
to be utterly defeated / to be routed
via / by way of / en route to
to be swept by the wind / to be blown about by the wind / to be routed (in battle etc)
lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom) / fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用|卢藏用, who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court)
route / path
router (computing)
route (of a bus etc)
route map; (lit. and fig.) roadmap
routed troops
(of a public transportation route) to resume operating
without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges
defeated / routed / crushed
routed troops; defeated and dispersed troops
(onom.) chaotic or dynamic noises (pattering, crashing, rustling, clattering, sobbing etc) / smashed to pieces; completely routed
march at ease / route step
trade route
to go the long way round / to take a circuitous route / (of a route) circuitous
(geometry) collinear / concurrency (a single road serving as a section of multiple routes)
air route / airway
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
train or bus traveling only part of its normal route
to change route / to divert (a road or a watercourse)
parade guards (usually spaced out along parade routes) / example / model / pacesetter
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *溃* | 溃* | *溃
(bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike / (bound form) to break through (a military encirclement) / (bound form) to be routed; to be overrun; to fall to pieces / (bound form) to fester; to ulcerate
to be utterly defeated; to be routed
(neologism c. 2021) (slang) to illegally migrate (esp. from China to the U.S. via Latin America through high-risk routes) / a route of such illegal migration
routing protocol
routing protocols
storage depot on a transportation route
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *途* | 途* | *途
way / route / road
to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)
the Qinghai-Tibet route


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