Meaning & readings
trip, travel
On’yomi リョ
Kun’yomi たび
Origin
This character appears to combine the idea of a flag or banner with a person in motion. The left side represents a flag or standard, which historically would be carried by travelers or military groups on journeys. The right side depicts a person or figure. Together, the image suggests a group of people moving together with a banner or marker, capturing the essence of traveling as a collective journey. Over time, this visual of organized movement came to represent the concept of a trip or travel more broadly.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (旅).
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 70
- Formation type
- Pictographic or simple
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #783 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+065C5