(Formal sound. From line, qú. The original meaning is road. The original meaning is road.)
The same meaning as the original meaning
Qu, the four directions of a road is called a qu. --Shuowen
Be in the four sides of the qu. --Da Dai Li Ji (The Records of the Great Rites)
What is the thoroughfare of heaven?
A rabbit walks through a thoroughfare, ten thousand people chase it, one person gets it, and all the greedy people stop.
Filling the streets and thoroughfares.
The streets were filled with streets. --Zhang Heng, "Xijing Fu"
And as: Da Qu; Chang Qu; Tong Qu (a road that leads in all directions); Qu Kui (a road); Qu Chu Chu (a place that leads in all directions); Qu Guo (a country that is in the center of a major portion of the country)
The branches of trees are staggered and forked
Xuan Mountain, on which there is a mulberry tree that is fifty feet large, and the branches are The branches of the mulberry are in all four directions. --Shanhaijing
Deferring to pathway
Qu qú 大路,四通八达的道路:~道。 Tong ~. 〈Metaphor〉the branches of a tree, the branches of a tree: its branches are five ~.