直路

Chinese

		straight; vertical; frank straight; vertical; frank; directly; straightly; upright	road; path; way
simp. and trad. (直路)		直	路

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhílù

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˊ ㄌㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik⁶ lou⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̍t-lu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ti̍t-lō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhílù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˊ ㄌㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhíhlù
    • Wade–Giles: chih²-lu⁴
    • Yale: jŕ-lù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyrluh
    • Palladius: чжилу (čžilu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵ lu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zik⁶ lou⁶
    • Yale: jihk louh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁹ lou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig⁶ lou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚² lou̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̍t-lu
    • Hakka Romanization System: ciid lu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cid⁶ lu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨt̚⁵ lu⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti̍t-lō͘
    • Tâi-lô: ti̍t-lōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: didlo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tit̚⁴⁻³² lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tit̚²⁴⁻² lɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tit̚¹²¹⁻²¹ lɔ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tit̚⁴⁻³² lɔ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tit̚⁴⁻³² lɔ³³/

Noun

直路

1. direct route

   • 為了走直路而走彎路，是許多事物在發展過程中所不可避免的現象，何況軍事運動。 [MSC, trad.]
     为了走直路而走弯路，是许多事物在发展过程中所不可避免的现象，何况军事运动。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wèile zǒu zhílù ér zǒu wānlù, shì xǔduō shìwù zài fāzhǎn guòchéng zhōng suǒ bùkě bìmiǎn de xiànxiàng, hékuàng jūnshì yùndòng. [Pinyin]

     To take a roundabout route in order to get on to the direct route—this is inevitable in the process of development of many phenomena, especially military movements.

Antonyms

• 彎路／弯路 (wānlù)