顧みる

かえりみる · kaerimiru · JLPT N1 · verb-ichidan

to review

🪞 顧みる = 顧 (turn one's head back) + 見る (to see): to look back on the past

Sounds like 帰り見る (return and see), which fits turning around to review what came before. The 顧 part alone means a backward glance.

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