Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

路: path, route

Also: road, distance

JLPT N313 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

足 carries the meaning · 各 gives the sound

13 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ロro · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 路上ろじょうstreet-side, road-side
  • 路線ろせんroute, line
  • 路地ろじalley
  • 道路どうろroad
  • 線路せんろtrain track
  • 通路つうろpassage
  • 回路かいろcircuit
  • 滑走路かっそうろrunway

-じ-ji · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 旅路たびじjourney

Also read ル, みち, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)足 (meaning) + 各 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 路 (rev. 93935210), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Foot radical + each (各) = the designated path where 'each' person's feet travel to reach their destination.”
From the 足 foot story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
足

Also built on foot (足)

All 11
各

Also built on each (各)

The 各 family reads カク (kaku); 路 is read ロ、ル.

路 gives its sound to

The family reading is ロ (ro). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ロ

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ル

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
路 path · 足
vs略 abbreviation · 田
路 has 足 where 略 has 田.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · lù

Same form: 路 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
路 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
路 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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