山路 (shān lù) — mountain road; mountain path | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

mountain roadmountain path

Measure word · 条

Examples

山路。
Kāi chē zǒu shān lù yào xiǎo xīn.
Be careful when driving on a mountain road.
山路，。
Zhè tiáo shān lù hěn dǒu, hěn nán zǒu.
This mountain path is very steep and hard to walk on.
山路。
Wǒ men yán zhe shān lù zǒu le liǎng gè xiǎo shí cái dào shān dǐng.
We walked along the mountain path for two hours before reaching the summit.

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.

山shānmountain

山 names the mountain setting and 路 names the path, giving a path through mountains.

Characters in this word

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

山 shows three mountain peaks side by side.

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.

Appears in

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