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Chinese symbol for “pavement”

便道
biàn dào
pavement; sidewalk; shortcut; makeshift road

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pavement is 便道 (biàn dào), defined as: pavement; sidewalk; shortcut; makeshift road.

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Characters and stroke order

便 biàn
easy, convenient; expedient
radical 9 ⼈ · 9 strokes
道 dào
method, way; path, road
radical 162 ⾡ · 13 strokes

Other Chinese words for “pavement”

WordPinyinMeaning
走道zǒu dàopavement; sidewalk
铺面 (鋪面)pū miànpaving; pavement

Related words

Other words that share a character with 便道.

WordPinyinMeaning
方便fāng biànconvenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy
随便 (隨便)suí biànas one wishes; as one pleases
便宜biàn yíconvenient
便是biàn shì(emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated); precisely
以便yǐ biànso that; so as to
知道zhī dàoto know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
报道 (報道)bào dàoto report (news); report
难道 (難道)nán dàodon't tell me ...; could it be that...?

See also: Japanese symbol for “pavement”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.