Meaning & readings
path, route, road, distance
On’yomi ロ、ル
Kun’yomi -じ、みち
Origin
The character 路 combines the idea of walking with a sound hint. The left side, 足, shows a foot or leg and indicates this character relates to movement on foot. The right side, 各, doesn't add meaning but tells you roughly how to pronounce the character—it's a sound hint left over from the character's Chinese origins. Together, the foot component and sound hint created a character meaning path or road, the thing you travel on with your feet.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 157
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #529 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+08DEF