远

远 · yuǎn

distant, remote, far; profound

Entry ↗

Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

distant, remote, far; profound

Mandarin
yuǎn
Cantonese
jyun5

Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.

Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese

Readings recorded for 远 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.

Japanese 日本語

Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.

Korean 한국어

Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.

Vietnamese Tiếng Việt

Character readings · Quốc ngữ

viễn

Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.

Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kVietnamese ↗ · provisional property

viễn

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+8FDC
Radical
辵 · 162
Strokes
7 · Unihan
Residual
4

Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.

Stroke order

7 strokes
远
Strokes
7
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

7 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Graphical structure

⿺辶元(GTV)
How to read these symbols

⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.

BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.

Words & connections

Words using 远

Character connections

No reverse component match in this collection.

Sentence context · 1 matches

他们之间隔着很远的距离。

They are separated by a great distance.
Source, contributors & licenses

Mandarin: Tatoeba #876558 · Original contributor: eastasiastudent · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #876559 · Original contributor: eastasiastudent · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: AlanF_US

Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.

Sentence entry · words & provenance ↗
Written-form matches; sense and pronunciation are not automatically aligned. Corpus & selection ↗

History & distinctions

Related forms

Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.

Sources & reference

Evidence & next depth

Source editions & exact scope ↗
Retained Unihan properties
kMandarin
yuǎn
kCantonese
jyun5
kDefinition
distant, remote, far; profound
kTotalStrokes
7
kRSUnicode
162.4
kTraditionalVariant
U+8FDC U+9060
kSimplifiedVariant
U+8FDC
kTGH
2013:608

Readings across dictionaries

Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
yuǎn 1425.080
Small numbers locate dictionary entries; 粵 introduces Cantonese. Includes rare or historical readings. Source notation ↗

Reference desk

Sentences in context

Explore 1 example using 远 ↗

Exact source-spelling matches. Open the reader for dictionary lookups, construction notes and related examples. Occurrence does not establish a particular dictionary sense.

Study this character

Structure & connections

0.10
200dictionary records using 远0forms using this shape0attributed sound links
⿺ Lower-left enclosure

Shape description
辶 wraps around 元 from the lower left · the shape used in China, Taiwan, Vietnam
Source notation ^⿺辶元$(GTV)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

Decompose & trace ↗Browse all 200 word records ↗Explore sound families ↗Component search ↗
Retained descriptions & scope

^⿺辶元$(GTV)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.