道路

Character by character

• 道dào13 strokesHSK 1path, road, street; method, way
• 路lù13 strokesHSK 1road, path, street; journey

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 道路. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 知道zhī dàoHSK 1

  to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhī dao]

• 路lùHSK 1

  road; journey; route; line (bus etc); sort; kind

• 道dàoHSK 2

  road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism); to say; to speak; to talk; 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)

• 报道bào dàoHSK 3

  to report (news); report

• 难道nán dàoHSK 3

  don't tell me ...; could it be that...?

• 路上lù shangHSK 1

  on the road; on a journey; road surface

• 味道wèi daoHSK 2

  flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor

• 公路gōng lùHSK 2

  highway; road

• 道德dào déHSK 5

  virtue; morality; ethics

• 一路yī lùHSK 5

  the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind

• 道理dào liHSK 2

  reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification

• 路线lù xiànHSK 3

  itinerary; route; political line (e.g. right revisionist road)

• 频道pín dàoHSK 5

  frequency; (television) channel

• 道歉dào qiànHSK 6

  to apologize

• 通道tōng dàoHSK 6

  (communications) channel; thoroughfare; passage

• 街道jiē dàoHSK 4

  street; subdistrict; residential district

• 大道dà dàoHSK 6

  main street; avenue

• 线路xiàn lùHSK 6

  (electricity) line; circuit; wire; (traffic) road; track; route

• 路过lù guòHSK 6

  to pass by or through

• 铁路tiě lùHSK 3

  railroad; railway

• 轨道guǐ dàoHSK 6

  track (for trains etc); orbit (of a satellite); (fig.) a person's established path in life; desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor); (audio engineering) track; (quantum mechanics) orbital

• 走路zǒu lùHSK 1

  to walk; to go on foot

• 管道guǎn dàoHSK 6

  tubing; pipeline; (fig.) channel; means

• 马路mǎ lùHSK 1

  street; road