Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

路 (radical 157 足+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口一竹水口 (RMHER), four-corner 6716₄, composition ⿰⻊各)

Derived characters

• 露
• 鷺

References

• KangXi: page 1225, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37524
• Dae Jaweon: page 1697, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3704, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8DEF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 路
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·raːɡs) : semantic 足 + phonetic 各 ‎(OC *klaːɡ).

Pronunciation

Definitions

路

1. road, path, street
2. pattern, arrangement
3. way, method
4. journey
5. route
6. kind, type
7. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: る (ru) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: ろ (ro)
• Kun: じ (ji), みち (michi)

Etymology 1

From Old Japanese.^[1] May be cognate with Korean 길 (gil, “road”).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi]

Alternative forms

• 道

Suffix

路 ‎(hiragana ち, romaji -chi)

1. (obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place

   This usage has generally been replaced by -ji below.

Etymology 2

Derived as a sound shift from chi above.^[1]

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑi]

Alternative forms

• 道

Suffix

路 ‎(hiragana じ, romaji -ji)

1. a road, a street

   山 (やま)路 (じ)、長 (なが)路 (じ)

   yama-ji, naga-ji

   a mountain road, a long road

2. attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place

   奈良 (なら)路 (じ)

   Nara-ji

   Road to Nara

3. attaches to a time duration, indicating a trip taking that length of time

   四日 (よっか)路 (じ)

   yokka-ji

   a trip of four days, a four-day-long trip

Etymology 3

Originally a compound of 御 ‎(mi, honorific prefix) +‎ 路 ‎(chi, “road, street, way”).^[1] The prefix mi was in reference to the 神 ‎(kami, “god or spirit”) of roads.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) みち [mìchí] (Heiban - [0])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [mit͡ɕi]

Alternative forms

• 道, 途, 径

Noun

路 ‎(hiragana みち, romaji michi)

1. a way, a street, a road, an alley, a path, a pass for local traffic
2. a way of doing something

References

1. 1 2 3 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
3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

路 • ‎(ro>no) (hangeul 로>노, revised ro>no, McCune-Reischauer ro>no, Yale lo>no)

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Vietnamese

Han character

路 (lộ, lọ, lồ, lựa, trọ, trò, lần)

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