HSK 6 · Transport

登陆 dēnglù “to land” in Chinese

Traditional 登陸

What 登陆 means

  1. to land
  2. to come ashore
  3. to log in
  4. to make landfall (of typhoon etc)

How to say 登陆

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale登dēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale陆lù4th tone, falling

登陆 in a sentence

  1. 可能我的孙子会是登陆火星的第一人。

    Kěnéng wǒ de sūnzi huì shì dēnglù Huǒxīng de dìyī rén.

    Maybe my grandson will be the first person to land on Mars.

    Sentence #819696 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 登陆 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 登 (dēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
登dēngto scale
  • 癶footsteps · bōMeaning part
  • 豆bean · dòuSound part

癶 hints at the meaning (footsteps); 豆 (dòu) hints at the sound. Compare it with dēng.

The character 陆 (lù) with each of its parts in a different colour
陆lùland
  • 阝placeMeaning part
  • 击to strike · jīSound part

阝 hints at the meaning (place); 击 (jī) hints at the sound. Compare it with lù.

How to write 登陆

登 12 strokes · 陆 7 strokes

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

Words related to 登陆

Words with 登

登机牌dēngjīpái · boarding pass登记dēngjì · to register (one’s name)攀登pāndēng · to climb登录dēnglù · to log in刊登kāndēng · to publish (in a newspaper or magazine)

Words with 陆

陆地lùdì · dry land (as opposed to the sea)陆续lùxù · in turn

More words: Everyday Things

乘chéng · to ride船舶chuánbó · ships穿越chuānyuè · to pass through导航dǎoháng · navigation颠簸diānbǒ · to jolt抵达dǐdá · to arrive动身dòngshēn · to set out港口gǎngkǒu · port

FAQs

登陆 (dēnglù) means “to land” or “to come ashore”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dēnglù: dēng with a 1st tone, then lù with a 4th 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, 登陆 is written 登陸. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type denglu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 登陆 from the suggestions. Typing denglu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
登陆 is an HSK 6 word in the 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.