迂回

迂迴
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〈还冀州别洛下知己序〉：「登鄂坂而迂迴，入邙山而北走。」也作「迂回」、「纡迴」。
  2. 军事上的一种作战术语。即避过敌军主力，绕到其后方或侧面突袭敌人的战术。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 迂 yū
  1. literal-minded
  2. pedantic
  3. doctrinaire
  4. longwinded
  5. circuitous
=2 回 huí
  1. to circle
  2. to go back
  3. to turn around
  4. to answer
  5. to return
  6. to revolve
  7. Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)
  8. time
  9. classifier for acts of a play
  10. section or chapter (of a classic book)
=2 回 huí
  1. to curve
  2. to return
  3. to revolve
=2 回 huí variant of 回 huí

Containing this entry

迂回奔袭 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
迂回曲折 yūhuíqūzhé

Related entries

弯路 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
绕远儿 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
盘曲 pánqū
  1. coiled
  2. entwined
  3. tortuous
包抄 bāochāo
  1. to outflank
  2. to envelop
间接 jiànjiē indirect
非直接 fēizhíjiē indirect
婉转 wǎnzhuǎn
  1. (voice, music) suave
  2. mellow
  3. (speech) indirect
  4. tactful
曲线 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

迂缓 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