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路灯 (lù dēng): meaning and stroke order

路灯 (lù dēng) means street lamp, street light.

路灯

Simplified
路灯
Traditional
路燈
Pinyin
lù dēng

Stroke order of 路灯

路

  • Lù surname Lu
  • lù road (CL:條|条[tiao2]); journey
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

灯

  • dēng lamp; light
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 燈

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 路灯

  1. lù dēng Traditional 路燈
    • street lamp
    • street light

Radicals of the characters

路
Radical 足 (Kangxi radical 157) · 13 strokes · 𧾷 on the left, 各 on the right
灯
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 6 strokes · 火 on the left, 丁 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

路灯 in our stories

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  • 刚来的时候,冬天下午三点天就黑了,她常常一个人坐在窗前,看着雪一点点把路灯埋起来,心里空落落的。

    gāng lái de shíhou dōngtiān xiàwǔ sān diǎn tiān jiù hēi le tā chángcháng yí gè rén zuò zài chuāngqián kàn zhe xuě yìdiǎndiǎn bǎ lùdēng mái qǐlai xīnli kōngluòluò de

    When she first arrived, winter darkness fell at three in the afternoon. She would often sit alone at the window, watching the snow slowly bury the street lamps, feeling hollow inside.

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 就在这时,老鲁放慢脚步,退到她身边:“别想还剩十二公里,只想下一根路灯。跑到那儿,再想下一根。”

    jiù zài zhèshí Lǎo Lǔ fàngmàn jiǎobù tuì dào tā shēnbiān bié xiǎng hái shèng shí'èr gōnglǐ zhǐ xiǎng xià yì gēn lùdēng pǎo dào nàr zài xiǎng xià yì gēn

    Just then Old Lu slowed and dropped back beside her: "Don't think about the twelve kilometres left. Think only about the next lamp post. When you get there, think about the next one."

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 路灯

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).