游览

yóulǎn · HSK 7

go sight-seeing

🗺️ 游 roam/travel + 览 view = roam around viewing the sights = tour

游 carries the travel/roam sense (same 游 as in 游泳 swim, 旅游 travel); 览 means to look over or survey, as in 浏览 browse. Together: travel around and survey the scenery.

游 — water radical 氵 + 斿 (banner/streamer)
游 combines the water radical 氵 with 斿, which depicts a banner streaming in the wind. The original sense was a flag fluttering or floating, extended to drifting on water, swimming, and wandering. Today it commonly means to swim, travel, or roam.

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