# 旅人
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lǚrén
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˇ ㄖㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi$^5$ jan$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lǚrén
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˇ ㄖㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lyǔrén
*** Wade–Giles: lü$^3$-jên$^2$
*** Yale: lyǔ-rén
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leuren
*** Palladius: люйжэнь (ljujžɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ly²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: leoi$^5$ jan$^4$
*** Yale: léuih yàhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: loey$^5$ jan$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lêu$^5$ yen$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɵy̯¹³ jɐn²¹/

### Noun

旅人
* (literary) traveller (e.g. hotel guest, passenger, etc.)
* (literary) itinerant
* (literary) common people
* (archaic) official

#### Synonyms

* (traveller):
* 乘客 (chéngkè) (passenger)
* 出外人 (Hokkien)
* 出門人 / 出门人 (Hokkien)
* 客人 (kèrén)
* 搭客 (Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew)
* 旅客 (lǚkè)
* 旅行家 (lǚxíngjiā)
* 旅行者 (lǚxíngzhě)
* 旅遊者 / 旅游者 (lǚyóuzhě)
* 遊人 / 游人 (yóurén)
* 遊客 / 游客 (yóukè)

## Japanese
### Etymology 1

Kanji in this term :
| 旅 | 人 |
| たび Grade: 3 | ひと > びと Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi ||
Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (hito, “person”). The hito changes to bito as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) たびびと [tàbíbító] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ta̠bʲibʲito̞]

#### Noun

旅(たび)人(びと) • (tabibito)
* one who travels: a traveler

##### Usage notes

For the traveler sense, the tabibito reading is the most common in modern Japanese.

### Etymology 2

Kanji in this term :
| 旅 | 人 |
| たび Grade: 3 | と Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi ||
Either an alteration of tabibito above, or a compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (to, “person”, suffixing form). Compare the formation of 隼人 (hayato, name of an ancient ethnic group in Japan, literally “hawk people”), 東人 (azumato, “easterner”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ta̠bʲito̞]

#### Noun

旅(たび)人(と) • (tabito)
* (archaic) one who travels: a traveler

#### Proper noun

旅(たび)人(と) • (Tabito)
* Ōtomo no Tabito, an ancient Japanese noble

### Etymology 3

Kanji in this term :
| 旅 | 人 |
| たび Grade: 3 | うど Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi ||
*/tapiputo/ → */tabibuto/ → /tabiudo/
Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (udo, “person”).
The term 人 (hito, “person”) appears in various older compounds with a root form of 人 (*puto → *buto → *udo, *puto → *futo → *uto). This form is never seen in isolation, and it often undergoes further phonetic changes to combine with preceding vowels. Compare the formation of 仲人 (nakōdo), from naka + udo; 素人 (shirōto), from shiro + uto; 玄人 (kurōto), from kuro + uto.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ta̠bʲiɯ̟do̞]

#### Noun

旅(たび)人(うど) • (tabiudo)
* (archaic) one who travels: a traveler

### Etymology 4

Kanji in this term :
| 旅 | 人 |
| Grade: 3 | Grade: 1 |
| irregular ||
*/tapiputo/ → */tabibuto/ → /tabiudo/ → /tabjuːdo/
Alteration from tabiudo above. Compare the formation of 仲人 (nakōdo), from naka + udo; 素人 (shirōto), from shiro + uto.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ta̠bʲɨːdo̞]

#### Noun

旅人(たびゅうど) • (tabyūdo)
* (uncommon) one who travels: a traveler

### Etymology 5

Kanji in this term :
| 旅 | 人 |
| たび Grade: 3 | にん Grade: 1 |
| yutōyomi ||
Compound of 旅 (tabi, “travel”) +‎ 人 (nin, “person; type of person”, using the Chinese-derived goon reading).

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) たびにん [tàbíníń] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ta̠bʲiɲ̟ĩɴ]

#### Noun

旅(たび)人(にん) • (tabinin)
* one who is constantly going from one place to another:
** a migrant worker
** an itinerant, especially someone like a gambler, mountebank or peddler

##### Synonyms

* (the general sense of someone who doesn't stay in one place very long): 渡(わた)り鳥(どり) (wataridori); 渡(わた)り者(もの) (watarimono)

### Etymology 6

Kanji in this term :
| 旅 | 人 |
| りょ Grade: 3 | じん Grade: 1 |
| on'yomi ||
From later Middle Chinese compound 旅人 (ljo$^X$ ȵʑjen, literally “travel + person”). Compare modern Mandarin reading lǚrén.

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) りょじん [ryòjíń] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ɾʲo̞ʑĩɴ]

#### Noun

旅(りょ)人(じん) • (ryojin)
* in ancient China, an official title, referring to a commoner in an official government position
* one who travels: a traveler

### References

* 1 2 3 4 5 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN