迂回曲折 — Chinese idiom
迂回曲折
yū huí qū zhé
Meaning
- meandering and circuitous ; complicated developments that never get anywhere
- going around in circles
Character by character
- 迂yūabstruse, pedantic, unrealistic
- 回huíto return, to turn around; a time
- 曲qūcrooked, bent; wrong, false
- 折zhéto break, to snap; to fold, to bend; to bow; humbl
Idioms sharing a character
- 回嗔作喜 huí chēn zuò xǐ
- 回天乏术 huí tiān fá shù
- 回心转意 huí xīn zhuǎn yì
- 回禄之灾 Huí lù zhī zāi
- 妙手回春 miào shǒu huí chūn
- 峰回路转 fēng huí lù zhuǎn
- 有去无回 yǒu qù wú huí
- 浪子回头 làng zǐ huí tóu
- 无力回天 wú lì huí tiān
- 起死回生 qǐ sǐ huí shēng
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