旅
Trip
On’yomi: りょ
Kun’yomi: たび
Radicals: Direction + Gun + Tofu
Meaning: Trip
If your friendly neighborhood tofu takes a gun and points it in your direction, you might want to take a trip. This tofu obviously has something wrong with it. If it’s taking a gun and pointing it in your direction, now’s probably a good time to get away and take that trip you’d been talking about.
Imagine this menacing block of tofu threatening you with a gun. Guns are scary so you want to get away. Use images of your trip to make the thoughts of the big bad tofu and his gun fade away.
Reading: りょ
That trip you’d been wanting to go on involved a big river and a row (りょ) boat. You’ve always loved rivers and row boats are your favorite means of transportation. You can’t wait to go on this row boating trip of yours.
Imagine your excitement for this row boating trip. You absolutely love row boats. Feel the ebb and flow of the river through the floor of the row boat, and the breeze in your hair as you glide down the river.
Related Vocabulary
旅 たび Trip
旅行 りょこう To Travel
- 旅 (Trip) + 行 (Go)
旅行者 りょこうしゃ Traveler, Tourist
- 上 (Above) + 行 (Go) + 者 (Someone)
旅行する りょこうする To Travel, To Take a Trip
- 上 (Above) + 行 (Go)