漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遠: distant, far
JLPT N313 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
- 袁(sound)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 袁 gives the sound
13 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
エンen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 遠慮するえんりょするrefrain, exercise restraint
- 遠足えんそくfield trip
- 永遠えいえんeternity
オンon · on'yomi
- 久遠くおんeternity
とおいtooi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 遠いとおいfar
- 遠くとおくfar
- 遠回りするとおまわりするdetour
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 walk (meaning) + 袁 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 遠 (rev. 92736662), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A robe or enclosure (袁) + movement radical = a long, winding path that feels as if you are traveling to the very ends of the earth.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read オン
9 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side遠 distant · ⻌
vs園 park · 囗In ChineseSimplified 远 · traditional, as in Japanese · yuǎn
Japan keeps the traditional form 遠; mainland China simplifies it to 远.
- Simplified
- 远 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遠 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yuǎn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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