noun #10,885

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 2
Wǒmen zài túzhōng huàn le yī cì chē.
We changed trains once on the way.
HSK 3
Tā de qiántú yīpiàn guāngmíng.
He has a bright future ahead of him.
HSK 5
Màncháng de lǚtú zhōng wǒ dú le yī běn shū.
I read a book during the long 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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