路 means “road, path”

ろ · ro

Also: route, distance

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

みち

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ロ, ル

JLPT N3 · Taught in grade 3 · 13 strokes

The story

Feet (足), each (各) going their own way, wear a path into the ground. 路 is the built road: 道路 for cars, 線路 for trains, and 通路 for the aisle, as in 通路側, the aisle seat on a shinkansen.

Used in 道路 (douro, road), 線路 (senro, railway track), and 通路 (tsuuro, aisle/passage)

More from Coming & Going

• 込 crowded
• 途 way
• 留 stay
• 散 scatter
• 浮 float
• 戻 go back
• 越 cross over
• 到 arrive
• 連 take along
• 向 face
• 放 release
• 残 remain

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.