HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Places

路上 lùshang “on the road” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 路上 means

  1. on the road
  2. on a journey
  3. on the way
  4. en route

How to say 路上

  • 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 neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own上shangneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

路上 in a sentence

  1. 告诉他我在路上。

    Gàosu tā wǒ zài lùshang.

    Tell him I’m on my way.

    Sentence #3467921 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 路上小心。

    Lùshang xiǎoxīn.

    Take care on the way.

    Sentence #13529741 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我在回家的路上遇到了他。

    Wǒ zài huíjiā de lùshang yùdào le tā.

    I met him on my way home.

    Sentence #794156 from Tatoeba

How 路上 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 上 (shàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
上shǎngup; upper; above; previouslight in 路上
  • ⺊divination form of 卜 · bǔ
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidA short stroke above the line: up, on top.

How to write 路上

路 13 strokes · 上 3 strokes

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

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

Words related to 路上

Words with 路

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

Words with 上

上shàng · up上午shàngwǔ · morning (forenoon)上课shàngkè · to go to class上学shàngxué · to go to school早上zǎoshang · morning晚上wǎnshang · evening上班shàngbān · to go to work上面shàngmiàn · above上来shànglái · to come up上去shàngqù · to go up

More words: Places & Getting Around

回去huíqu · to return进来jìnlái · to come in进去jìnqù · to go in里面lǐmiàn · inside商场shāngchǎng · shopping mall上来shànglái · to come up上去shàngqù · to go up外国wàiguó · foreign (country)

FAQs

路上 (lùshang) means “on the road” or “on a journey”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it lùshang: lù with a 4th tone, then shang with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 路上 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type lushang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 路上 from the suggestions. Typing lushang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
路上 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 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.