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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

岔路

chàlù

fork in the road

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

fork in the road

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 岔路 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我们来到了岔路口。wǒ men lái dào le chà lù kǒu。

We've come to a fork in the road.

我们到达岔路口时,犹豫是继续往城镇走去,还是继续往山上走去。wǒ men dào dá chà lù kǒu shí, yóu yù shì jì xù wǎng chéng zhèn zǒu qù, hái shì jì xù wǎng shān shàng zǒu qù。

When we reached the fork, we hesitated between continuing towards the town or continuing towards the mountains.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 岔路.

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

Directly before

  • 到达岔路1
  • 了岔路1

Directly after

  • 岔路口时1
  • 岔路口1
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 岔路

What does 岔路 mean in Chinese?

岔路 (chàlù) means fork in the road.

How do you pronounce 岔路?

岔路 is pronounced chàlù.

Is 岔路 an HSK word?

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

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