Criss-crossing field paths, 阡陌, stretched across the countryside.
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阡 almost never stands alone in modern Chinese; it survives in the literary pair 阡陌 — the grid of paths between farm plots, 阡 running north-south and 陌 east-west. It joins the mound radical 阝 with 千 for the sound.
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Literary and bound — modern use is essentially the fixed pair 阡陌.
