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路
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- 路
- lù · road, path, street; journey
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Mandarin tones
4 · lu4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lou6
Cantonese word readings for 路. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- road; path; street (Classifier: 條／条 m c mn)
- pattern; arrangement; sequence
- way; method
- journey
- route
- kind; type
- region
- Classifier for lines or rows.
- (historical) circuit (an administrative unit during the Song and Yuan dynasties)
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- -year-old, in multiples of ten; decade(s) of one's life; Used for describing the style of people in such age range.
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