音読み: ジュン
訓読み: めぐる
画数: 6
部首: しんにょう（辶）
Meaning
Patrol / Go Around / Circulate
- Basic forms
- 巡る — go around; make rounds; come around / base form
- 巡ります — goes around; makes rounds / masu form
- 巡った — went around; made rounds / ta form
- 巡って — going around … / te form
- 巡らない — do not go around / negative
- 巡れば — if (it) goes around / conditional
- Common expressions
- 町を巡る — tour the town
- 季節が巡る — the seasons come around
- 話題を巡る — concerning a topic
- More
- 巡っている — is going around; has come around / state
巡る（めぐる） is a godan intransitive verb. It describes movement in a circuit or cycle, and is also used metaphorically for time, events, or circumstances.
- 巡る — to go around; to circulate
- 巡回 — patrol; round
- 巡業 — provincial tour (performers, sumo)
- 巡査 — police officer (patrolman)
- 巡視 — inspection; patrol
- 巡礼 — pilgrimage
With the radical 辶 (movement, road), 巡 carries the sense of walking a circuit, turning around, or making rounds. From patrols (巡回), to pilgrimages (巡礼), the common thread is “going around in sequence.”