遠

See also 远, and 逺

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 袁

Han character

遠 (radical 162 辵+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜土口女 (YGRV), four-corner 3430₃, composition ⿺辶袁)

1. distant, remote, far
2. profound

Descendants

• を

References

• KangXi: page 1263, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39047
• Dae Jaweon: page 1757, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3869, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9060

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Cantonese

Hanzi

遠 (simplified 远, Yale yun5)

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Japanese

Kanji

遠 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. distant
2. far

Readings

• On: えん (en), おん (on)
• Kun: とおい (tooi), とおざかる (toozakaru), おち (ochi)

Compounds

永遠 (えいえん, eien) 遠因 (えんいん, en'in) 遠近 (えんきん, enkin) 遠近法 (えんきんほう, enkinhō) 遠交近攻 (えんこうきんこう, enkōkinkō)

遠称 (えんしょう, enshō) 遠心力 (えんしんりょく, enshinryoku) 遠征 (えんせい, ensei) 遠足 (えんそく, ensoku) 遠方 (えんぽう, enpō)

遠来 (えんらい, enrai) 遠慮 (えんりょ, enryo) 久遠 (くおん, kuon) 深遠 (しんえん, shin'en) 遠江 (とうとうみ, tōtōmi)

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Korean

Hanja

遠 (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

遠 (simplified 远, pinyin yuǎn (yuan3), yuàn (yuan4), Wade-Giles yüan³, yüan⁴)

1. distant, remote, far
2. profound

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Vietnamese

Han character

遠 (viễn, vẻn, viển, vỏn)