HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Places

走路 zǒulù “to walk” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 走路 means

  1. to walk
  2. to go on foot
  3. to leave
  4. to depart
  5. (informal) to clear off
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to beat it
  • (of sb who gets fired or resigns) to leave the job
  • to get out

How to say 走路

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale走zǒu3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale路lù4th tone, falling

走路 in a sentence

  1. 他走路很快。

    Tā zǒulù hěn kuài.

    He walks fast.

    Sentence #8888278 from Tatoeba

  2. 她走路上班。

    Tā zǒulù shàngbān.

    She walks to work.

    Sentence #13158370 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 那个小男孩会走路。

    Nà ge xiǎo nánhái huì zǒulù.

    That little boy can walk.

    Sentence #3713845 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 走路 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 走 (zǒu) with each of its parts in a different colour
走zǒuto walk
  • 土earth · tǔ
  • 止stop · zhǐ

Memory aidOnce drawn as a person swinging their arms above a foot 止: to run. Today it means “to walk”.

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.

How to write 走路

走 7 strokes · 路 13 strokes

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

Words related to 走路

Words with 走

走zǒu · to walk走廊zǒuláng · corridor走漏zǒulòu · to leak (information)走私zǒusī · to smuggle飞禽走兽fēiqínzǒushòu · birds and beasts

Words with 路

路lù · road路上lùshang · on the road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

More words: Places & Getting Around

外国wàiguó · foreign (country)外面wàimiàn · outside网上wǎngshàng · online下去xiàqù · to go down中zhōng · middle汽车qìchē · car房子fángzi · house街jiē · street

FAQs

走路 (zǒulù) means “to walk” or “to go on foot”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it zǒulù: zǒu with a 3rd 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.
Yes. 走路 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zoulu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 走路 from the suggestions. Typing zoulu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
走路 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.