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The Chinese word 路 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
1. road; path; street
     修路 - to build a road
2. pattern; arrangement; sequence
     思路 - train of thought
     紋路 - veined pattern
3. way; method
     生路 - means of livelihood; way of subsistence
4. journey
     回家 。 - It's a long journey to return home.
      身體 。 - His body is very weak, walking only a few steps already makes him dizzy.
     還有 公里 。 -
5. route
      進軍 - to advance along three routes
     12 公交車 - No. 12 bus
6. kind; type
7. region
      人馬 - people from different places
8. -year-old, in multiples of ten; decade(s) of one's life; (Used for describing the style of people in such age range.)
     三十- 大叔 - a man in his thirties -
     七十- - [JAV featuring women in their seventies -
9. (historical) circuit (an administrative unit during the Song and Yuan dynasties)

路 ⇨ 足
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. (anatomy) foot
2. (anatomy) leg (of an animal)
3. leg (of an object)
4. (in compounds) football; soccer
     女足 - women's football -
     足協 - football association -
5. to walk
6. to tread; to stamp; to step
     Zu
7. to satisfy; to fulfill
     滿足 - satisfied; to satisfy
8. to stop; to cease
9. enough; sufficient; not lacking
10. abundant; affluent
11. (literary, or in compounds) to be worthy of; to warrant
12. fully; entirely
13. (Zhangzhou, &, Taiwan Min Nan) very; quite
      - very good, MN
14. can; may
15. (literary) overly; excessively
16. (literary) to replenish; to augment