yuǎn

distant, remote, far; profound

DEFINITIONS

遠 yuǎn
  • far
  • distant
  • remote
  • (intensifier in a comparison) by far
  • much (lower etc)
遠 yuàn
  • to distance oneself from (classical)

STROKES

WORDS

三級跳 sān jí tiào yuǎn triple jump (athletics); hop, skip and jump
千里 bù yuǎn qiān lǐ make light of traveling a thousand li; go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
zhōng yuǎn abbr. for 中遠集團|中远集团[Zhong1 yuan3 Ji2 tuan2], COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company)
太平洋 zhōng yuǎn tài píng yáng COSCO Pacific Limited, major freight company
太平洋有限公司 zhōng yuǎn tài píng yáng yǒu xiàn gōng sī COSCO Pacific Limited, major freight company
集團 zhōng yuǎn jí tuán COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company)
香港集團 zhōng yuǎn xiāng gǎng jí tuán COSCO Hong Kong Group
jiǔ yuǎn old; ancient; far away
人無慮,必有近憂 rén wú yuǎn lǜ , bì yǒu jìn yōu He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).; Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow.
任重道 rèn zhòng dào yuǎn a heavy load and a long road; fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)
piān yuǎn remote; far from civilization
pì yuǎn remote and faraway
前程大 qián chéng yuǎn dà to have a future full of promise
十字軍征 shí zì jūn yuǎn zhēng the Crusades
君子庖廚 jūn zǐ yuàn páo chú lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius); fig. a nobleman who has seen a living animal cannot bear to see it die, hence he keeps away from the kitchen
哆囉美 duō luō měi yuǎn Torobiawan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
哆囉美族 duō luō měi yuǎn zú Torobiawan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
哈伯太空望鏡 hā bó tài kōng wàng yuǎn jìng Hubble Space Telescope
大老 dà lǎo yuǎn very far away
天差地 tiān chā dì yuǎn poles apart (idiom); entirely different
天高皇帝 tiān gāo huáng dì yuǎn lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom); fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government
好高騖 hào gāo wù yuǎn to bite off more than one can chew (idiom); to aim too high
wēi yuǎn Weiyuan county in Neijiang 內江|内江[Nei4 jiang1], Sichuan
縣 wēi yuǎn xiàn Weiyuan county in Neijiang 內江|内江[Nei4 jiang1], Sichuan
ān yuǎn Anyuan county in Ganzhou 贛州|赣州, Jiangxi
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