He's already been on several business trips this month.
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Counts a there-and-back trip or a scheduled service run, not a one-way arrival. Common frames: 去一趟 (make a trip to), 跑一趟 (run an errand), 白跑一趟 (waste a trip). With trains, buses, and flights it numbers individual scheduled services.
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Polyphone: as a classifier this is 趟 (falling tone). When it means to wade or to trample (variant of 蹚), the reading shifts to tāng (level tone) - see the second entry.
Walk-radical wrapping the bottom-left - the indexing radical. Every 趟 is a unit of travel by foot, train, bus, or any means. Anchors the char in the motion family with 跑 (run), 起 (rise), and 越 (cross over).
Right 尚 supplies the sound (shàng → tàng, a coronal shift mirrored across the family: 堂, 倘, 躺). Purely phonetic - no semantic contribution; the meaning is anchored entirely by the walk radical.
