路途
lùtú · HSK 7
Route
🛣️ 路途 = 路 (road) + 途 (way) — two road words stacked into one journey
Both 路 (lù, road) and 途 (tú, way/route) mean roughly path. Doubling them gives 路途, the whole route or journey from start to end. The shared meaning is the hook: road-word plus road-word equals the full route.
路 — foot 足 + each 各 (phonetic)
路 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The foot radical 足 on the left signals meaning related to walking or travel, while 各 on the right hints at the ancient pronunciation. Originally referring to a road traveled on foot, it broadened to mean 'road, path, route' in general.