Chinese symbol for “tortuous”
迂回
yū huí
Traditional: 迂迴
roundabout route; circuitous; tortuous; to outflank
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tortuous is 迂回 (yū huí), defined as: roundabout route; circuitous; tortuous; to outflank; indirect; roundabout.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “tortuous”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 迂回.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 迂腐 | yū fǔ | pedantic; trite |
| 迂回曲折 | yū huí qū zhé | meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere; going around in circles |
| 迂阔 (迂闊) | yū kuò | high sounding and impractical; high flown nonsense |
| 迂曲 | yū qū | circuitous; tortuous |
| 拘迂 | jū yū | inflexible; stubborn |
| 回来 (回來) | huí lai | to return; to come back |
| 回到 | huí dào | to return to |
| 回家 | huí jiā | to return home |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.