(yuǎn) - far, distant in Mandarin
yuǎnTraditional: 远
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Translation
far, distant
Word origin
远 (yuǎn) means 'far, distant'. It is a phono-semantic compound of 辶 (the movement or road radical) giving the sense of distance, with 元 (yuán, 'first, head') supplying the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 辶 (movement radical) + 元 (yuán, phonetic)
Stroke order
远
Examples
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The school is far from my home.
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Do you live far away?
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He comes from far away.
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The park is very far from here.
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She lives on a distant mountain.
远 (yuǎn) means far or distant.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 远.
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