迂回

roundabout route / circuitous / tortuous / to outflank / indirect / roundabout

literal-minded / pedantic / doctrinaire / longwinded / circuitous

to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

to curve / to return / to revolve

variant of 迴|回[hui2]

meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles

to attack from an unexpected direction