路

lù

road (CL:條|条[tiao2])

surname Lu; journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind

foot (足) + sound (各) = road or route

The foot radical grounds the character in physical movement and travel. 各 lends the sound lù; the meaning is carried entirely by 足.

足+各→路
各EachPhonetic
足FootSemantic

这条路很长,走路要花很多时间。

zhè tiáo lù hěn cháng, zǒu lù yào huā hěn duō shí jiān。

This road is very long; walking it takes a lot of time.

你知道去火车站的路怎么走吗?

nǐ zhī dào qù huǒ chē zhàn de lù zěn me zǒu ma?

Do you know the way to get to the train station?

Words with 路

半路

bàn lù

halfway

路面

lù miàn

road surface

路人甲

lù rén jiǎ

ordinary person A; generic person; some random person

过路费

guò lù fèi

toll (fee for using a road)

回头路

huí tóu lù

the road back to where one came from

路易斯

lù yì sī

Louis or Lewis (name)

路线图

lù xiàn tú

route map; (lit. and fig.) roadmap

短路

duǎn lù

short circuit

不归路

bù guī lù

road to ruin; course of action from which there is no turning back

山路

shān lù

mountain road

闭路电视

bì lù diàn shì

closed-circuit television

死路一条

sǐ lù yī tiáo

(idiom) dead end

More characters with 足

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