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Highway in Chinese

highway · HSK 4

公路 gōng lù

  1. 公 gōng public
  2. 路 lù road

Counted with 条: 一条公路 yì tiáo gōnglù

这条公路通到山里。 This road leads into the mountains.

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How do you say highway in Chinese?

Highway in Chinese is 公路 (gōng lù). You can also say 高速 (gāo sù).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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