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Mythic Mandarin

路上 (lù shang): meaning and stroke order

路上 (lù shang) means on the road, on the way; en route.

路上

Simplified
路上
Traditional
路上 (same form)
Pinyin
lù shang

Stroke order of 路上

路

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

Stroke by stroke

上

  • shǎng used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
  • shàng (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts)
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 路上

  1. lù shang
    • on the road
    • on the way; en route

Radicals of the characters

路
Radical 足 (Kangxi radical 157) · 13 strokes · 𧾷 on the left, 各 on the right
上
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes

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.

路上 in our stories

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  • 桃林里结满了又大又甜的桃子，后来路过的人，再也不会像夸父那样渴死在路上了。

    táolín lǐ jiē mǎn le yòu dà yòu tián de táozi hòulái lùguò de rén zài yě bú huì xiàng Kuāfù nàyàng kě sǐ zài lùshang le

    The grove was full of large sweet peaches, and travellers who passed later would never again die of thirst on the road as Kuafu had.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 下到七千九百米的营地，用了整整九个小时。他们都清楚，一旦天黑了还没到营地，三个人就都会冻死在路上。

    xià dào qīqiānjiǔbǎi mǐ de yíngdì yòng le zhěngzhěng jiǔ gè xiǎoshí tāmen dōu qīngchu yídàn tiān hēi le hái méi dào yíngdì sān gè rén jiù dōu huì dòngsǐ zài lùshang

    Getting down to the camp at 7,900 metres took nine full hours. They all knew that if darkness fell before they reached camp, all three would freeze to death on the way.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 路上

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).