遠

遠 (radical 162, 辵+10, 14 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 13 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜土口女 (YGRV), four-corner 3430₃, composition ⿺辶袁)

• 薳(䓕), 闧, 𭔚, 𮆡, 𭋜, 𤾮, 𮟧

• 远 (Simplified Chinese)

• を (Hiragana character derived from Man'yōgana)

• 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

Historical forms of the character 遠
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

遠

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

• (far): 近 (jìn)

遠

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

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. distant, far
2. temporally long
3. unfriendly, keep away
4. deep, profound
5. estranged
6. Tōtōmi Province

• Go-on: おん (on, Jōyō, uncommon)^{←をん (won, historical)}
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←ゑん (wen, historical)}
• Kun: とおい (tōi, 遠い, Jōyō)^{←とほい (tofoi, historical)}; とおざかる (tōzakaru, 遠ざかる)^{←とほざかる (tofozakaru, historical)}; おち (ochi)^{←をち (woti, historical)}; おと (oto)^{←をと (woto, historical)}
• Nanori: おに (oni)^{←をに (woni, historical)}; ど (do); どお (dō)^{←どほ (dofo, historical)}; とおし (tōshi)^{←とほし (tofosi, historical)}; とおる (tōru)^{←とほる (toforu, historical)}

⟨to₂po⟩ → */təpo/ → /tofo/ → /towo/ → /toː/

From Old Japanese.

Stem of classical adjective 遠し (tōshi), modern 遠い (tōi, “distant, far”).[1]

遠 (hiragana とお, rōmaji tō-, historical hiragana とほ)

1. distant, far-off

/woti/ → /wot͡ɕi/ → /ot͡ɕi/

From Old Japanese.

• 彼方

遠 (hiragana おち, rōmaji ochi, historical hiragana をち)

1. (archaic) a distant place
2. (archaic) a time far from the present
   1. the distant past
   2. the far-off future

⟨woto₂⟩ → */wotə/ → /woto/ → /oto/

Shift from Old Japanese ochi, ancient woti (see above).[1][2]

• 彼方

遠 (hiragana おと, rōmaji oto, historical hiragana をと)

1. (archaic) a distant place
2. (archaic) a time far from the present
   1. the distant past
   2. the far-off future

• 一昨日 (おとつい) (ototsui), 一昨日 (おととい) (ototoi, “day before yesterday”)
• 一昨年 (おととし) (ototoshi), 一昨年 (おとどし) (otodoshi, “year before last year”)

From Middle Chinese 遠 (MC ɦʉɐn^X, “distant; remote; far”), corresponding to modern Mandarin yuǎn, Cantonese jyun⁵.

As a verb in Chinese compounds like 遠色 (enshoku, “keep aloof from beauty”, kun'yomi iro o tōzaku), from Middle Chinese 遠 (MC ɦʉɐn^H, “keep at a distance; keep away from”), corresponding to Mandarin yuàn, Cantonese jyun⁶.

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

遠 (hiragana えん, rōmaji en, historical hiragana ゑん)

1. distant; far; remote (in time or space)
2. distant (in relationship); estranged
3. deep; profound
4. Abbreviation of 遠江国 (Tōtōmi no kuni, “Tōtōmi Province”).

From Middle Chinese 遠 (MC ɦʉɐn^X, “distant; remote; far”).

The goon pronunciation, so likely the initial borrowing.

• On’yomi: Goon
  • IPA^(key): [õ̞ɴ]

遠 (hiragana おん, rōmaji on, historical hiragana をん)

1. distant; far; remote (in time, space, or relationship)

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

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遠 (viễn, vẻn, viển, vỏn)

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