旅

Translingual

Han character

旅 (Kangxi radical 70, 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人竹女 (YSOHV), four-corner 0823₂, composition ⿰方⿱𠂉⿸⿱丿𠄌⿺乀丿)

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		旅
alternative forms		祣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 旅
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (旅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
玈	*raː
旅	*ɡ·raʔ
膂	*ɡ·raʔ
祣	*raʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 㫃 (“flag”) + 从 (“together”) – brigade.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 旅

1. (military) brigade
2. ^† army; troops
3. ^† an army consisting of 500 soldiers
4. ^† traveller
5. journey; trip
6. ^† hotel
7. to travel
8. 56th hexagram of the I Ching
9. 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.

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Japanese

Kanji

旅

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. trip
2. travel

Readings

• Go-on: ろ (ro)
• Kan-on: りょ (ryo, Jōyō)
• Kun: たび (tabi, 旅, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 旅(たび)先(さき) (tabisaki, “travel destination”)
• 旅(たび)路(じ) (tabiji, “travel route, itinerary; a journey”)
• 旅(たび)立(だ)ち (tabidachi, “departure (on a trip)”)
• 旅(たび)人(びと) (tabibito, “a traveller”)
• 旅(りょ)館(かん) (ryokan, “an inn”)
• 旅(りょ)券(けん) (ryoken, “a passport”)
• 旅(りょ)行(こう) (ryokō, “a trip, a voyage, travel”)
• 旅(りょ)団(だん) (ryodan, “a brigade”)
• 旅(りょ)費(ひ) (ryohi, “travel expenses”)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
旅
りょ Grade: 3
on'yomi

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

Noun

旅(りょ) • (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(りょ) • (ryo-) 

1. a trip, a journey, travel

Usage notes

The prefix usage only ever appears in kanji compounds.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
旅
たび Grade: 3
kun'yomi

/tabi₁/ → /tabi/

From Old Japanese. 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.

Noun

旅(たび) • (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(たび)する • (tabi suru) intransitive suru (stem 旅(たび)し (tabi shi), past 旅(たび)した (tabi shita))

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of "旅する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	旅し	たびし	tabi shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	旅し	たびし	tabi shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	旅する	たびする	tabi suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	旅する	たびする	tabi suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	旅すれ	たびすれ	tabi sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	旅せよ¹ 旅しろ²	たびせよ¹ たびしろ²	tabi seyo¹ tabi shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	旅される	たびされる	tabi sareru
Causative	旅させる 旅さす	たびさせる たびさす	tabi saseru tabi sasu
Potential	旅できる	たびできる	tabi dekiru
Volitional	旅しよう	たびしよう	tabi shiyō
Negative	旅しない	たびしない	tabi shinai
Negative continuative	旅せず	たびせず	tabi sezu
Formal	旅します	たびします	tabi shimasu
Perfective	旅した	たびした	tabi shita
Conjunctive	旅して	たびして	tabi shite
Hypothetical conditional	旅すれば	たびすれば	tabi sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

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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)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 旅 (lữ)

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