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回り合わせ (まわりあわせ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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、
旅りょ
行こう
の
日ひ
に
台たい
風ふう
が
来き
た
。
As luck would have it, a typhoon came on the day of our trip.
Many things in life are decided by fate.
Related words 運うん 命めい 運命 is a more formal and weighty term for destiny or fate, while 回り合わせ is a colloquial, everyday word for how things happen to turn out.
運うん 運 is a general word for luck (good or bad), whereas 回り合わせ emphasizes the turn or course of events.
Written forms 回まわ り 合あ わせ
回まわ り 合あわ せ Usage 100%
Variant with 合せ instead of 合わせ; both are used.
Etymology Compound of 回り (まわり, 'turning, revolving') and 合わせ (あわせ, 'joining, matching'), literally 'the way things come around together'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it likely developed from the idea of circumstances aligning or turning.
