noun #10,885

Meanings

  1. 1 way
  2. 2 route
  3. 3 journey

Examples

Túzhōng
on the way
Qiántú
future prospects
Lǚtú
journey

Tips

memory
(walk) + (surplus) — the road still ahead

Components

radical
chuò
walk; motion (radical form of 辵)
Wrap-under motion radical — the side-form of , depicting a foot taking a step along a road. The indexing radical for , planting it firmly in the path/journey family with (way), (road), (advance), (return). A wayside hut you walk past becomes the route itself.
phonetic
I; remaining (here phonetic)
Upper-right supplies the sound — yú shifting to tú through a regular initial alternation. originally pictured a thatched roof on stilts, a wayside hut. The same phonetic links with (to smear; road), (on foot), (slaughter), so the whole family clusters around the tú sound.

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