noun

Meanings

  1. 1 foot of a mountain
  2. 2 foothills

Examples

Wǒmen zài shānlù dā qǐ le zhàngpeng.
We pitched our tents at the foot of the mountain.
Cūnzi zuòluò zài Huà Shān běi lù.
The village sits at the northern foot of Mount Hua.

Tips

usage
Almost always appears as 'mountain foot' or with a directional prefix ( 'northern foot', 'southern foot'). Rarely stands alone in modern Chinese.
memory
The character is 鹿 (deer) sitting under (forest) — picture deer grazing in the wooded foothills below a mountain. The 鹿 also gives the sound (lù).

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