Etymology

jungyo

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Today it means: A regional tour, undertaken between honbashos, during which the rikishi give exhibition matches. Full definition →

Middle Chinese 巡
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The story

  1. Middle Chinese · derived from巡“to make rounds, tour”
  2. English todayjungyo

Borrowed from Japanese 巡業 (じゅんぎょう, jungyō), from Middle Chinese 巡 (zwin, “to make rounds, tour”) + 業 (ngjæp, “work”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.