巡

音読おんよみ: ジュン

訓読くんよみ: めぐる

画数かくすう: 6

部首ぶしゅ: 辶(しんにょう)

Meaning

Patrol / Go Around / Circulate

  • めぐる — to go around; to circulate
  • 巡回じゅんかい — patrol; round
  • 巡業じゅんぎょう — provincial tour (performers, sumo)
  • 巡査じゅんさ — police officer (patrolman)
  • 巡視じゅんし — inspection; patrol
  • 巡礼じゅんれい — pilgrimage

With the radical (movement, road), 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.”

Think of (ち, blood) and the phrase 血の巡り — “the circulation of blood.” Just like blood flows through the body, suggests a repeated circuit or cycle.

Creates

巡回じゅんかい — patrol; rounds; circulation.

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