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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

后路

hòulù

escape route

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

escape route

02

retreat route

03

communication lines to the rear

04

alternative course of action

05

room for maneuver

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 后路 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 后路 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我们并没有完全断了你的后路。wǒ men bìng méi yǒu wán quán duàn le nǐ de hòu lù。

We're not terminating you.

如果你辞掉这份工作,你将在自毁后路rú guǒ nǐ cí diào zhè fèn gōng zuò, nǐ jiāng zài zì huǐ hòu lù

If you quit the job, you'll be burning your bridges.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 后路.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 后路.

Directly before

  • 自毁后路1
  • 的后路1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 后路

What does 后路 mean in Chinese?

后路 (hòulù) means escape route.

How do you pronounce 后路?

后路 is pronounced hòulù.

Is 后路 an HSK word?

后路 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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