迂回曲折

迂回曲折 in English

yū huí qū zhé: meandering and circuitous (idiom) / complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles

Character breakdown

迂 yū literal-minded
回逥 huí to go back
曲 qū fermentation starter
折 shé to snap

Stroke order

Le caractère 回 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 回

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 曲 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 曲

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 折 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 折

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

迂

Bronze script 春秋
Clerical script 西漢
See all 3 forms

回

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

曲

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 18 forms

折

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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