逵

kuí

坴 + 辶

Definitions

kuí crossroads; thoroughfare

Etymology phono-semantic

walk

Semantic: 辶 Phonetic: 坴

About

逵 is a literary term for a major crossroads or broad highway. It combines the movement radical 辶, indicating its connection to travel and roads, with 坴 (lù), which depicts earth mounds and originally provided the phonetic element. Unlike common words for streets like 路 or 街, 逵 evokes a grand, expansive junction and often appears in place names or poetic descriptions.

Etymology Hide

Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Traditional Modern

Simplified Modern

Example Sentences Hide

这条道路通九逵。

Zhè tiáo dàolù tōng jiǔ kuí.

This road leads to all the major thoroughfares.

逵这个字不太常用。

Kuí zhège zì bù tài chángyòng.

The character '逵' is not very commonly used.

城市的通逵上车辆很多。

Chéngshì de tōng kuí shàng chēliàng hěnduō.

There is a lot of traffic on the city's main roads.

他住在一条名叫凤逵的街上。

Tā zhù zài yī tiáo míng jiào Fèng Kuí de jiē shang.

He lives on a street called Feng Kui.

小镇的主逵两旁种满了梧桐树。

Xiǎo zhèn de zhǔ kuí liǎngpáng zhòng mǎnle wútóng shù.

Both sides of the town's main avenue are planted with phoenix trees.

车子驶离了喧闹的康逵，进入小巷。

Chēzi shǐ lí le xuānnào de kāng kuí, jìnrù xiǎo xiàng.

The car drove away from the noisy main road and entered the side alleys.

这条逵衢是连接新旧城区的枢纽。

Zhè tiáo kuí qú shì liánjiē xīn jiù chéngqū de shūniǔ.

This broad avenue is the hub connecting the old and new city districts.

新建的立交桥使得城西的交通逵路更加顺畅。

Xīn jiàn de lìjiāoqiáo shǐdé chéng xī de jiāotōng kuí lù gèngjiā shùnchàng.

The newly built overpass has made the main traffic routes in the west of the city flow more smoothly.

Related Characters

Component: 坴

Component: 辶

逵