遠
遠 — won
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 멀 원
- Romanization
- won
- English
- distant, remote, far; profound
- Mandarin
- yuǎn
- Japanese on'yomi
- エン, オン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- とお.い
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #887 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 辵 (162, 10 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 袁(원)
- Unicode
- U+9060
Parts that make up 遠
- 袁 성(姓) 원sound 옷을 걸친 모양‘원’ 계열의 소리
- ⻌ variant of 辶 네거리와 발가고 오는 일, 길 위의 움직임
How 遠 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 遠 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 辵, 袁.
Korean example words with 遠
- 원로遠路 Korean gloss: 먼 길
- 원정遠程 Korean gloss: 먼 길
- 원지遠地 Korean gloss: 먼 곳
- 원처遠處 Korean gloss: 먼 곳
- 원방遠邦 Korean gloss: 먼 나라
- 원친遠親 Korean gloss: 먼 일가붙이
- 원래遠來 Korean gloss: 먼 곳에서 옴
- 원산遠山 Korean gloss: 멀리 있는 산
- 구원久遠 Korean gloss: 영원하고 무궁함
- 원손遠孫 Korean gloss: 먼 후세의 자손
- 불원不遠 Korean gloss: 거리가 멀지 않음
- 원뢰遠雷 Korean gloss: 멀리서 울리는 우레
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 遠
- 永遠えいえん eternity; perpetuity; permanence
- 遠征えんせい (military) expedition; campaign; expedition (for exploration, research, etc.)
- 望遠鏡ぼうえんきょう telescope
- 遠隔えんかく distant; remote; isolated
- 遠慮えんりょ reserve; constraint; restraint
- 敬遠けいえん pretending to respect (someone) while in fact staying distant; keeping at arm's length; giving a wide berth
- 遠山えんざん distant mountain
- 遠足えんそく school trip; field trip; excursion
- 疎遠そえん estrangement; alienation; neglecting to stay in contact
- 遠距離えんきょり long distance; long range; long distance relationship
- 遠洋えんよう ocean; deep sea
- 遠方えんぽう distant place; faraway location; far away
Characters sharing the phonetic 袁
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “원” in Korean.
Other hanja read “원”
Other hanja with radical 辵
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences