漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
途: route, way
Also: road
JLPT N310 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 余 gives the sound
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
トto · on'yomi · in compounds
- 途中とちゅうon the way, en route, midway
- 前途ぜんとfuture prospects, outlook
- 用途ようとuse, usefulness
- 帰途きとon the way back, returning
- 発展途上はってんとじょうdeveloping (country)
- 途絶えるとだえるstop, cease, come to an end
Also read みち, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
余
Also built on too much (余)
The 余 family reads ジョ (jo); 途 is read ト.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side途 route · ⻌
vs叙 confer · 又In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tú
Same form: 途 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 途 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 途 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tú 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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