HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Places

路边 lùbiān “roadside” in Chinese

Traditional 路邊

What 路边 means

  1. roadside
  2. side of the road
  3. curb
  4. wayside

How to say 路边

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale路lù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale边biān1st tone, high and level

路边 in a sentence

  1. 不要随意在路边停车。

    Búyào suíyì zài lùbiān tíngchē.

    Don’t just park by the roadside wherever you like.

    Sentence #3660224 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 路边 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 路 (lù) with each of its parts in a different colour
路lùroad 条)
  • 足foot · zúMeaning part
  • 各individual · gèSound part

足 hints at the meaning (foot); 各 (gè) hints at the sound. Compare it with lù.

The character 边 (biān) with each of its parts in a different colour
边biānside
  • 力strength · lì
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

Memory aidWalk 辶 with all your strength 力 to reach the edge: side, edge.

How to write 路边

路 13 strokes · 边 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

路边 (lùbiān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 路边 (lùbiān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 路边

Words with 路

路lù · road路上lùshang · on the road走路zǒulù · to walk马路mǎlù · road路口lùkǒu · intersection迷路mílù · to lose the way高速公路gāosùgōnglù · motorway出路chūlù · way out

Words with 边

边biān · side那边nàbian · over there外边wàibian · outside这边zhèbiān · this side旁边pángbiān · side右边yòubian · right side左边zuǒbian · left side一边yìbiān · one side身边shēnbiān · at one’s side边疆biānjiāng · border region

More words: Places & Getting Around

行李xíngli · luggage马路mǎlù · road东方dōngfāng · the East楼梯lóutī · stairs路口lùkǒu · intersection东北dōngběi · northeast小区xiǎoqū · residential estate西南xīnán · southwest

FAQs

路边 (lùbiān) means “roadside” or “side of the road”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it lùbiān: lù with a 4th tone, then biān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 路边 is written 路邊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type lubian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 路边 from the suggestions. Typing lubian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
路边 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.