巡 means “go around, patrol, tour”

めぐる · meguru

Also: circumference

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

めぐる, めぐり

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ジュン

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 6 strokes

The story

Walking (辶) along a winding river (巛): making the rounds. 巡る is to go around, as pilgrims do on Shikoku's 88-temple circuit, 巡回 is a patrol, and the friendly local cop is お巡りさん, the one who walks the rounds.

Used in 巡る (meguru, to go around), お巡りさん (omawarisan, police officer), and 巡回 (junkai, patrol/rounds)

More from Routes & Returns

• 往 go
• 軌 track
• 逸 deviate
• 搬 carry
• 循 circulate
• 旋 revolve
• 迭 replace
• 遷 move
• 遡 go upstream
• 臨 face
• 還 return
• 至 reach

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.