旅人

Chinese

		trip; travel	man; person; people
simp. and trad. (旅人)		旅	人

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǚrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˇ ㄖㄣˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǚrén
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˇ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lyǔrén
    • Wade–Giles: lü³-jên²
    • Yale: lyǔ-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leuren
    • Palladius: люйжэнь (ljujžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/

Noun

旅人

1. traveller
2. (literary) itinerant
3. (literary) common people
4. (archaic) official

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
旅	人
たび Grade: 3	ひと > びと Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (hito, “person”). The hito changes to bito as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) たびびと [tàbíbító] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠bʲibʲito̞]

Noun

旅(たび)人(びと) • (tabibito) 

1. one who travels: a traveler

Usage notes

For the traveler sense, the tabibito reading is the most common in modern Japanese.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
旅	人
たび Grade: 3	と Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Either an alteration of tabibito above, or a compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (to, “person”, suffixing form). Compare the formation of 隼人 (hayato, name of an ancient ethnic group in Japan, literally “hawk people”), 東人 (azumato, “easterner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta̠bʲito̞]

Noun

旅(たび)人(と) • (tabito) 

1. (archaic) one who travels: a traveler

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
旅	人
たび Grade: 3	うど Grade: 1
kun’yomi

*/tapiputo/ → */tabibuto/ → /tabiudo/

Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (udo, “person”).

The term 人 (hito, “person”) appears in various older compounds with a root form of 人 (*puto → *buto → *udo, *puto → *futo → *uto). This form is never seen in isolation, and it often undergoes further phonetic changes to combine with preceding vowels. Compare the formation of 仲人 (nakōdo), from naka + udo; 素人 (shirōto), from shiro + uto; 玄人 (kurōto), from kuro + uto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta̠bʲiɯ̟ᵝdo̞]

Noun

旅(たび)人(うど) • (tabiudo) 

1. (archaic) one who travels: a traveler

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
旅	人
Grade: 3	Grade: 1
irregular

*/tapiputo/ → */tabibuto/ → /tabiudo/ → /tabjuːdo/

Alteration from tabiudo above. Compare the formation of 仲人 (nakōdo), from naka + udo; 素人 (shirōto), from shiro + uto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta̠bʲɨᵝːdo̞]

Noun

旅人(たびゅうど) • (tabyūdo) ^{←たびうど (tabiudo)?}

1. (uncommon) one who travels: a traveler

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
旅	人
たび Grade: 3	にん Grade: 1
yutōyomi

Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (nin, “person; type of person”, using the Chinese-derived goon reading).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) たびにん [tàbíníń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠bʲiɲ̟ĩɴ]

Noun

旅(たび)人(にん) • (tabinin) 

1. one who is constantly going from one place to another:
   1. a migrant worker
   2. an itinerant, especially someone like a gambler, mountebank or peddler

Synonyms

• (the general sense of someone who doesn't stay in one place very long): 渡(わた)り鳥(どり) (wataridori); 渡(わた)り者(もの) (watarimono)

Etymology 6

Kanji in this term
旅	人
りょ Grade: 3	じん Grade: 1
on’yomi

From later Middle Chinese compound 旅人 (ljo^X ȵʑjen, literally “travel + person”). Compare modern Mandarin reading lǚrén.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) りょじん [ryòjíń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲo̞ʑĩɴ]

Noun

旅(りょ)人(じん) • (ryojin) 

1. in ancient China, an official title, referring to a commoner in an official government position
2. one who travels: a traveler