大路 (dà lù) — main road; broad street; highway | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

main roadbroad streethighway

Measure word · 条

Examples

大路。
Wǒ men kāi chē cóng dà lù qù chéng lǐ.
We drove from the main road into the city.
大路，。
Zhè tiáo dà lù hěn kuān, wǎn shàng yě hěn liàng.
This main road is very wide and also bright at night.
大路，。
dà lù Shang yǒu hěn duō chē, yào zhù yì ān quán.
There are many cars on the highway; you need to be careful.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

大路 joins 大, big, with 路, road, to mean a main broad road.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

各

各gè路lù

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

路 combines 足, a foot, with 各, which supplies the sound.

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