远

See also: 遠
远 U+8FDC, 远
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FDC
← 进
[U+8FDB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 违 →
[U+8FDD]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

远 (radical 162, 辵+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese, 7 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input 卜一一山 (YMMU), four-corner 31301, composition ⿺辶元)

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Chinese

Etymology 1

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 辶 (“walk”) + phonetic 元.

Unorthodox variant simplified from 遠 (袁 → 元) found in various moveable type copies of classical novels. First attested in 《宋元以來俗字譜》, a variant forms dictionary compiled in 1930 that records unorthodox forms (俗字) that have existed since the Song dynasty.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 远 – see 遠 (“distant; remote; far; not intimate; distant; etc.”).
(This character, 远, is the simplified and variant form of 遠.)
Notes:

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Etymology 2
simp. and trad.
 远
variant forms ⿺辶无

Glyph origin

Found in the historical Chinese dictionary Longkan Shoujian 《龍龕手鑑》 compiled in 997 AD.

Pronunciation

Definitions

远

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain.

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Vietnamese

Han character

远 (viễn, viển)

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