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路 — road; journey; route

road; journey; route; line; sort; kind

Pinyin
lù · Lù
Strokes
13
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — lù, Lù — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 路: 13 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

路 — 13 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 路 in the HSK syllabus: 33

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 路lùroad; journey; route; line; sort; kindHSK 2
  2. 路上lùshangon the road; on the way; en routeHSK 2
  3. 走路zǒulùto walk; to go on foot; to leave; to departHSK 2
  4. 路边lùbiāncurb; roadside; waysideHSK 3
  5. 路口lùkǒucrossing; intersectionHSK 3
  6. 马路mǎlùstreet; roadHSK 3
  7. 道路dàolùroad; path; wayHSK 4
  8. 公路gōnglùhighway; roadHSK 4
  9. 路过lùguòto pass by; to pass throughHSK 4
  10. 十字路口shízì lùkǒucrossroads; intersectionHSK 4
  11. 路人lùrénpasser-by; strangerHSK 5
  12. 路线lùxiànitinerary; route; political lineHSK 5
  13. 迷路mílùto lose the way; lost; labyrinthHSK 5
  14. 铁路tiělùrailroad; railwayHSK 5
  15. 线路xiànlùline; circuit; wire; road; track; routeHSK 5
  16. 一路yílùthe whole journey; all the way; going the same wayHSK 5
  17. 一路顺风yílù-shùnfēngto have a pleasant journeyHSK 5
  18. 路程lùchéngroute; path traveled; distance traveled; courseHSK 6
  19. 路况lùkuàngroad conditionHSK 6
  20. 路面lùmiànroad surfaceHSK 6
  21. 思路sīlùline of thought; way of thinkingHSK 6
  22. 出路chūlùa way outHSK 7–9
  23. 带路dàilùto lead the way; to guide; to show the wayHSK 7–9
  24. 峰回路转fēnghuí-lùzhuǎnthe mountain road twists around each new peakHSK 7–9
  25. 路段lùduànstretch of road; section of a highway or railwayHSK 7–9
  26. 路径lùjìngpath; route; method; ways and meansHSK 7–9
  27. 路途lùtúroad; pathHSK 7–9
  28. 路子lùzimethod; way; approachHSK 7–9
  29. 门路ménluway of doing sth; the right social connectionHSK 7–9
  30. 铺路pūlùto pave; to lay a road; to lay the groundworkHSK 7–9
  31. 顺路shùnlùby the way; while out doing sth else; convenientlyHSK 7–9
  32. 走弯路zǒu wānlùto take an indirect routeHSK 7–9
  33. 走投无路zǒutóu-wúlùto be at an impasse; in a tight spotHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.