Chinese Character Wiki
路

lù

road

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

Components
足 meaning component

足  Meaning component

zú, jù

  

foot

各 sound component

各  Sound component

gè

  

each

Evolution

路 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
路 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
路 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
路 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

路  

lù

road, path, street; journey; road; CL:條|条[tiáo]; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind

路  

Lù

surname Lu

Most common words with 路
Freq.
Word
Meaning

路

road

路上

on the road

道路

road

公路

highway

一路

all the way

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (1 verified)

露 璐 潞 鷺 鹭

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.rˤak-s

luH

lù

road


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 84.2223% of movies

314th most common character in movies

305th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8DEF

Shuowen

“路，道也。从足，从各。”


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