远

See also: 遠

远 U+8FDC, 远 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FDC ← 进 [U+8FDB] CJK Unified Ideographs 违 → [U+8FDD]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

远 (radical 162, 辵+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese, 7 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 卜一一山 (YMMU), four-corner 3130₁, composition ⿺辶元)

Derived characters

• 䓕, 𨙌

Related characters

• 遠 (Orthodox traditional form of 远)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1254, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3818, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8FDC

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Chinese

Etymology 1

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 辶 (“walk”) + phonetic 元.

Unorthodox variant simplified from 遠 (袁 → 元) found in various moveable type copies of classical novels. First attested in 《宋元以來俗字譜》, a variant forms dictionary compiled in 1930 that records unorthodox forms (俗字) that have existed since the Song dynasty.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 远 – see 遠 (“distant; remote; far; not intimate; distant; etc.”). (This character, 远, is the simplified and variant form of 遠.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04172-006

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		远
alternative forms		⿺辶无

Glyph origin

Found in the historical Chinese dictionary Longkan Shoujian 《龍龕手鑑》 compiled in 997 AD.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yóu (you²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˊ
    • Wade–Giles: yu2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: you
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yóu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯³⁵/

Definitions

远

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04172-006#22

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Vietnamese

Han character

远: Hán Nôm readings: viễn, viển

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References

• Nom Foundation