途 - Dong Chinese dictionary

tú

way, journey

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 余 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

余 Sound component

yú

途 and 余 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.途 /*lˤa/
余 /*la/

Evolution

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

tú

way, road, path, journey; course; way; route; road

Most common words with 途

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*lˤa	du	tú	road

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 30.2419% of movies

1310th most common character in movies

1085th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Unicode	U+9014

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