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遠

遠

See also: 远 and 逺

Translingual

Han character

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

Descendants

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

Chinese

trad. 遠
simp. 远
alt. forms 逺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 遠
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (袁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
薳 *ɢʷalʔ
袁 *ɢʷan
園 *ɢʷan
轅 *ɢʷan
猿 *ɢʷan
榬 *ɢʷan
溒 *ɢʷan
遠 *ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷanʔ, *ɢʷans) : semantic 辵 ‎(“walk”) + phonetic 袁 ‎(OC *ɢʷan).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 遠
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 雲阮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuanX/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuɐnX/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭwɐnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 遠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yuǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjwonX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ɢʷanʔ/
English far

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 遠
Reading # 1/2
No. 16226
Phonetic
component		 袁
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 遠
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷanʔ/

Definitions

遠

  1. distant; remote; far
  2. not intimate; distant
  3. profound
  4. (intensifier in a comparison) much; by far
Antonyms
  • (far): 近 (jìn)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 遠
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 于願切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦuanH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuɐnH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭwɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 遠
Reading # 2/2
No. 16227
Phonetic
component		 袁
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 遠
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷans/

Definitions

遠

  1. † to distance oneself from; to keep at a distance
  2. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

遠

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. distant
  2. far

Readings

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)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

遠 (viễn, vẻn, viển, vỏn)

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