kuí
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a thoroughfare; a major road open in all directions
  2. 2 a crossroads

Examples

HSK 7-9
Jǐ tiáo dàlù zài zhè tōngkuí jiāohuì, sìtōng-bādá.
Several big roads met at this crossroads, leading in every direction.
HSK 7-9
Jīngchéng de dàkuí kuān de néng bìngxíng duō liàng mǎchē.
The capital's broad thoroughfares were wide enough for many carriages.

Tips

history
A classical word for a wide road that branches out in every direction - the busy artery of an old walled city. It survives mainly in literary phrases like 通逵 and 大逵, and as a given-name character.

Components

radical
chuò
to walk; movement (form of 辵)
The walking radical , a contracted form of . It is always written last and wraps the bottom-left, marking roads, travel and movement - exactly right for a word meaning a major through-route.
phonetic
a clod of earth; mound
The inner element (a lump of earth) supplies the sound and a faint hint of the road's earthen surface; here it is written first, before the motion radical sweeps in beneath it.

Stroke Order

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