转悠

zhuàn you · HSK 7

to wander around

🎠 转 turn + 悠 leisurely = turning around at leisure, i.e. to stroll and wander

转 carries the spin or roll, 悠 adds an unhurried, swinging quality. Put together they describe ambling about with no fixed goal, and by extension something that keeps turning up again and again.

转 — car radical 车 + 专 (phonetic)
转 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 车 (cart/wheel) gives the meaning, evoking something that turns or rotates like a wheel. The right side 专 supplies the sound. Originally referring to the turning of a cart's wheels, it broadened to mean 'turn,' 'rotate,' or 'shift' in general.

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