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回る

まわる

to rotate, to go around

Mnemonic

One square inside another, and the outer one keeps going round without ever arriving. The same Ma まわ as 回す, except that nobody is turning it. The moon has been at it four billion years: まわる.

Built from

turn, time
A square inside a square, something going round.

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