"Circuitous" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 迂回 | yū huí | roundabout route / circuitous / tortuous / to outflank / indirect / roundabout |   |
| 迂 |  yū | literal-minded / pedantic / doctrinaire / longwinded / circuitous | |
| 绕远儿 | rào yuǎn r | to go the long way round / to take a circuitous route / (of a route) circuitous | |
| 迂曲 | yū qū | circuitous / tortuous / roundabout | |
| 宛转 | wǎn zhuǎn | sinuous / meandering / to take a circuitous route / to toss about / vicissitudes / variant of 婉轉|婉转[wan3 zhuan3] | |
| 迂回曲折 | yū huí qū zhé | meandering and circuitous (idiom) / complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles | |
| 绕来绕去 | rào lái rào qù | meandering and circuitous (idiom) / to go around in circles and never get anywhere | |
