路

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

• 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

• 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
• Unihan data for U+F937

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

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

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).

"-year-old, in multiples of ten"

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 路(じ) (ji). See Japanese 三十路(みそじ) (misoji).

路

1. road; path; street (Classifier: 條／条)

   修路  ―  xiūlù  ―  to build a road

   • 這正如地上的路；其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。 [MSC, trad.]
     这正如地上的路；其实地上本没有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1921, Lu Xun, 故鄉 (My Old Home)

     Zhè zhèngrú dìshàng de lù; qíshí dìshàng běn méiyǒu lù, zǒu de rén duō le, yě biàn chéng le lù. [Pinyin]

     It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

2. pattern; arrangement; sequence

   思路  ―  sīlù  ―  train of thought

   紋路／纹路  ―  wénlù  ―  veined pattern

3. way; method

   生路  ―  shēnglù  ―  means of livelihood; way of subsistence

   • 無路請纓，等終軍之弱冠。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     无路请缨，等终军之弱冠。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 7th century, 王勃 (Wang Bo), 滕王閣序

     Wúlù qǐngyīng, děng Zhōng Jūn zhī ruòguàn. [Pinyin]

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4. journey

   回家的路很遠。／回家的路很远。  ―  Huíjiā de lù hěn yuǎn.  ―  It's a long journey to return home.

   佢身體好虛，行幾步路都會暈。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   佢身体好虚，行几步路都会晕。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ san¹ tai² hou² heoi¹, haang⁴ gei² bou⁶ lou⁶ dou¹ wui⁵ wan⁴. [Jyutping]

   His body is very weak, walking only a few steps already makes him dizzy.

   還有一公里的路要走。 [MSC, trad.]
   还有一公里的路要走。 [MSC, simp.]

   Háiyǒu yī gōnglǐ de lù yào zǒu. [Pinyin]

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   • 三十功名塵與土，八千里路雲和月。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     三十功名尘与土，八千里路云和月。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Yue Fei (1103-1142), Man Jiang Hong (滿江紅)

     Sānshí gōngmíng chén yǔ tǔ, bāqiān lǐ lù yún hé yuè. [Pinyin]

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5. route

   三路進軍／三路进军  ―  sān lù jìnjūn  ―  to advance along three routes

   12路公交車／12路公交车  ―  12 lù gōngjiāochē  ―  No. 12 bus

6. kind; type
7. region

   各路人馬／各路人马  ―  gè lù rénmǎ  ―  people from different places

8. Classifier for lines or rows.
9. -year-old, in multiples of ten; decade(s) of one's life; Used for describing the style of people in such age range.

   三十路大叔  ―  sānshílù dàshū  ―  a man in his thirties

   七十路  ―  qīshílù  ―  [JAV featuring] women in their seventies

10. (historical) circuit (an administrative unit during the Song and Yuan dynasties)
11. a surname

• “路”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “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.

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. road, path, street
2. journey
3. way, method
4. important position

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

From Old Japanese.[1]

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi]

路(ち) • (-chi) 

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

   This usage has generally been replaced by 路(じ) (ji) below.

• 道(みち) (michi), 路(みち) (michi), 途(みち) (michi), 径(みち) (michi)
• 長(なが)路(ち) (nagachi)

Originally a rendaku (連濁) form of 路(ち) (chi) above.[2]

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑi]

路(じ) • (-ji) ^{←ぢ (di)?}

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

From Middle Chinese 路 (MC luH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɾo̞(ː)] ~ [no̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [로(ː)/노(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

路 (eumhun 길 로 (gil ro), South Korea 길 노 (gil no))

1. Hanja form^? of 로/노 (“road, route; avenue, street”). [affix; suffix]

路: Hán Nôm readings: lộ

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