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轨道

guǐ dào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 軌道

轨道 (guǐ dào) means "track (for trains etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 轨道 means

1. track (for trains etc)
2. orbit (of a satellite)
3. (fig.) a person's established path in life
4. desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor)
5. (audio engineering) track
6. (quantum mechanics) orbital

The characters in 轨道

• 轨guǐ(bound form) rail; track; course; path
• 道dàoroad; path; (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art…

Example sentences

• 你在正确的轨道上。
  Nǐ zài zhèngquè de guǐdào shàng.
  You're on the right track.
• 特快火车正驶进轨道。
  Tèkuài huǒchē zhèng shǐ jìn guǐdào.
  The express train is moving down the track.
• 我的生意终于上了轨道。
  Wǒ de shēngyi zhōngyú shàng le guǐdào.
  My business has at last gotten on the right track.
• 到5号轨道乘随便什幺火车。
  Take any train on track 5.
• 由于轨道是椭圆形的，行星和太阳之间的距离不会总是相同。
  Yóuyú guǐdào shì tuǒyuánxíng de, xíngxīng hé tàiyang zhījiān de jùlí bù huì zǒngshì xiāngtóng.
  Since the orbits are elliptical, the planets do not always have the same distance from the Sun.
• 这次任务充满了里程碑：这将是韩国女性首次进入太空轨道，也是代表韩国的蒜味辣白菜——「泡菜」，第一次出现在零重力餐桌上。
  The mission is full of landmarks: it will be the first time a South Korean woman has headed into orbit, and it will also be the first time that "kimchi"—that spicy, garlicky cabbage dish that epitomizes South Korea—will be served at the zero-gravity dinner table.

Words starting with 轨道

• 轨道交通guǐ dào jiāo tōngmetro; rapid transit; subway
• 轨道空间站guǐ dào kōng jiān zhànorbital space station
• 轨道舱guǐ dào cāngorbital module

Words containing 轨道

• 上轨道shàng guǐ dàoto stay on track; to proceed smoothly
• 圆轨道yuán guǐ dàocircular orbit (in astronomy and in astronautics)
• 同步轨道tóng bù guǐ dào(astronomy) synchronous orbit
• 地球轨道dì qiú guǐ dàoEarth orbit (orbit of a satellite around the Earth)…
• 近地轨道jìn dì guǐ dàolow Earth orbit (LEO)
• 静止轨道jìng zhǐ guǐ dào(astronomy) stationary orbit
• 地球同步轨道dì qiú tóng bù guǐ dào(astronomy) geosynchronous orbit
• 地球静止轨道dì qiú jìng zhǐ guǐ dào(astronomy) geostationary orbit
• 轻型轨道交通qīng xíng guǐ dào jiāo tōnglight rail; transit system (underground, at street level or elevated); streetcar
• 低地轨道dī dì guǐ dàosee 近地轨道

Where 轨道 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · guǎng–Guó (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read guǐ dào correctly.
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