路

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 潞, 璐, 㯝, 鏴, 𡀔, 𢷅, 𤢊, 𧒌, 𫄉, 𦓉, 𧸚, 𨎲, 𪆬/𪆽, 𤮗
• 露, 簬, 蕗, 𡽘, 𦌕, 鷺(鹭), 𧒍, 𩁐, 𫘘, 𪛅, 𮮍

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1225, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37524
• Dae Jaweon: page 1697, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3704, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8DEF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		路

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 路
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
髂	*kʰraːɡs
路	*ɡ·raːɡs
輅	*ɡ·raːɡs
賂	*ɡ·raːɡs
虂	*ɡ·raːɡs
露	*ɡ·raːɡs
潞	*raːɡs
鷺	*raːɡs
璐	*raːɡs
簬	*raːɡs
簵	*ɡ·raːɡs
洛	*ɡ·raːɡ
駱	*ɡ·raːɡ
絡	*ɡ·raːɡ
酪	*ɡ·raːɡ
烙	*ɡ·raːɡ
雒	*ɡ·raːɡ
珞	*ɡ·raːɡ
硌	*ɡ·raːɡ
袼	*ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿	*ɡ·raːɡ
鉻	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
鮥	*ɡ·raːɡ
鵅	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
挌	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
落	*ɡ·raːɡ
各	*klaːɡ
胳	*klaːɡ
閣	*klaːɡ
格	*klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
擱	*klaːɡ
恪	*kʰlaːɡ
愙	*kʰaːɡ
貉	*ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
狢	*ɡlaːɡ
佫	*ɡlaːɡ
略	*ɡ·raɡ
茖	*kraːɡ
骼	*kraːɡ
觡	*kraːɡ
蛒	*kraːɡ
敋	*kraːɡ
客	*kʰraːɡ
喀	*kʰraːɡ
揢	*kʰraːɡ
額	*ŋɡraːɡ
峉	*ŋɡraːɡ
頟	*ŋɡraːɡ
詻	*ŋɡraːɡ
垎	*ɡraːɡ
楁	*ɡraːɡ

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

Etymology

Either related to 格 (OC *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ, “to come, to arrive (obsolete)”) (Baxter, 1992) or from Austroasiatic (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *kraʔ (“road, way”), whence Proto-Vietic *kraːʔ (→ fossilized Vietnamese sá & Muong khá (“road, way”)), Chong khraa, Kuy (k)na, and Proto-Waic *kraʔ. Possibly cognate with 略 (OC *ɡ·raɡ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 路

1. road; path; street (Classifier: 條／条)
2. pattern; arrangement
3. way; method
4. journey
5. route
6. kind; type
7. a surname

Further reading

• “Entry #10169”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

路

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: ろ (ro, Jōyō)
• Kun: じ (ji, 路, Jōyō); みち (michi, 路)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
路
ち Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese. May be cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Korean 길 (gil, “road”).

Alternative forms

• 道

Suffix

路(ち) • (-chi) 

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

   This usage has generally been replaced by -ji below.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
路
じ Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Contraction of the michi reading.

Alternative forms

• 道

Suffix

路(じ) • (-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(な)良(ら)路(じ)

   Nara-ji

   road to Nara

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

   四(よっ)日(か)路(じ)

   yokka-ji

   a four-day trip

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
路
みち Grade: 3
kun’yomi

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

Alternative forms

• 道, 途, 径

Noun

路(みち) • (michi) 

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

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Korean

Hanja

路 • (ro>no) (hangeul 로>노)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 路 (lộ, lọ, lồ, lựa, trọ, trò, lần)

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