The road was hard to walk and the traveler could make no headway.
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history
邅 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It appears almost only in the classical bound expression 迍邅 (to be stuck, beset by difficulties), where it pairs with 迍.
register
Archaic and literary only, found in old texts and etymology notes, not in everyday speech.
辶 is the walking radical (the moving-on form of 辵), written last in stroke order. It marks this as a word about going along a road, here, going with difficulty.
