迂迴

迂回
yūhuí
  1. roundabout route
  2. circuitous
  3. tortuous
  4. to outflank
  5. indirect
  6. roundabout

CEDICT

  1. full of twists and turns; roundabout; circuitous; meandering; tortuous
  2. indirect
  3. to outflank

Wiktionary

  1. 曲折迴旋。唐．王勃〈還冀州別洛下知己序〉：「登鄂阪而迂迴，入邙山而北走。」也作「迂回」、「紆迴」。
  2. 軍事上的一種作戰術語。即避過敵軍主力，繞到其後方或側面突襲敵人的戰術。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 迂 yū
  1. literal-minded
  2. pedantic
  3. doctrinaire
  4. longwinded
  5. circuitous
2 迴 huí
  1. to curve
  2. to return
  3. to revolve

Containing this entry

迂回奔襲 yūhuíbēnxí to attack from an unexpected direction
迂回曲折 yūhuíqūzhé
  1. meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere
  2. going around in circles
迂迴曲折 yūhuíqūzhé

Related entries

彎路 wānlù
  1. winding road
  2. roundabout route
  3. detour
  4. (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth)
迂曲 yūqū
  1. circuitous
  2. tortuous
  3. roundabout
繞遠兒 ràoyuǎnr
  1. to go the long way round
  2. to take a circuitous route
  3. (of a route) circuitous
迂 yū
  1. literal-minded
  2. pedantic
  3. doctrinaire
  4. longwinded
  5. circuitous
盤曲 pánqū
  1. coiled
  2. entwined
  3. tortuous
包抄 bāochāo
  1. to outflank
  2. to envelop
間接 jiànjiē indirect
非直接 fēizhíjiē indirect
婉轉 wǎnzhuǎn
  1. (voice, music) suave
  2. mellow
  3. (speech) indirect
  4. tactful
曲線 qūxiàn
  1. curve
  2. curved line
  3. indirect
  4. in a roundabout way
在图形上，正态分布是一种钟形曲线，越接近中心，取值越大，越远离中心，取值越小。

In its graphical representation, the normal distribution is a bell-shaped curve, with the value growing as one moves closer to the middle and decreasing as one moves away.

Source: Tatoeba

迂緩 yūhuǎn
  1. dilatory
  2. slow in movement
  3. roundabout
委 wěi
  1. to entrust
  2. to cast aside
  3. to shift (blame etc)
  4. to accumulate
  5. roundabout
  6. winding
  7. dejected
  8. listless
  9. committee member
  10. council
  11. end
  12. actually
  13. certainly