Translingual

Han character

旅 (radical 70 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人竹女 (YSOHV), four-corner 0823₂)

References

• KangXi: page 483, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13644
• Dae Jaweon: page 845, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2178, character 7
• Unihan data for U+65C5

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 㫃 + 从 ‎(“together”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

旅

1. (military) brigade
2. ^†army; troops
3. ^†traveller
4. journey; trip
5. ^†hotel
6. to travel
7. 56th hexagram of the I Ching
8. A surname​.

Usage notes

• (military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a brigade was composed of two regiments (團). In turn, two brigades formed a division (整編師), a square division.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. trip
2. travel

Readings

• Goon: ろ (ro) (non-joyo-kanji)
• Kan’on: りょ (ryo)
• Kun: たび (tabi)

Compounds

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 旅 ‎(ljo^X, “a military unit of 500 men; to go [on a sortie; on a trip or journey]”).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Kan'on
• IPA^(key): [rjo̞]

Noun

旅 ‎(hiragana りょ, romaji ryo)

1. in ancient China, a military unit of 500 soldiers
2. one of the I Ching hexagrams: sojourning (I Ching hexagram interpretation on Wikipedia here)

Prefix

旅 ‎(hiragana りょ, romaji ryo-)

1. a trip, a journey, travel

Usage notes

The prefix usage only ever appears in kanji compounds.

Etymology 2

/tabi₁/ → /tabi/

From Old Japanese.^[1] Appears in the Man'yōshū, completed no earlier than 759 and one of the oldest extant texts in the Japanese language.

May be cognate with 度 ‎(tabi, “the time when something happens”); both terms have the same pitch accent, the same ancient vowel values, and some semantic overlap.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) たび​ [tàbíꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠bi]

Noun

旅 ‎(hiragana たび, romaji tabi)

1. a journey; travel
   • 1694, 松尾芭蕉 Matsuo Bashō

     旅 (たび)に病 (や)んで夢 (ゆめ)は枯野 (かれの)をかけ廻 (めぐ)る。

     Tabi ni yande yume wa kareno o kakemeguru.

     Anxious to go journeying, my dreams run through the desolate fields.

     不思議 (ふしぎ)な旅 (たび)が始 (はじ)まるぜ！

     Fushigi na tabi ga hajimaru ze!

     A strange journey is about to begin!

2. (archaic) a temporary time spent in a place
3. (more specifically) a place where a 神輿 ‎(mikoshi, “portable shrine”) spends a temporary time outside of the 本宮 ‎(hongū, “main shrine building”) during a 祭り ‎(matsuri, “festival”)

Verb

旅する ‎(intransitive, hiragana たびする, romaji tabi suru)

1. to travel, to go on a journey or trip

Conjugation

References

1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

旅 • ‎(ryeo>yeo) (hangeul 려>여, revised ryeo>yeo, McCune-Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, Yale lye>ye)

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Compounds

• 旅券 ‎(여권, yeo.gweon)

Vietnamese

Han character

旅 (lữ)

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