远 (遠) yuǎn
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yuǎn
adjective
far; distant
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 远 means 遥远. For example, 稍微远一点儿就看不见 'if it was a little further away then [she] could not see it' (GHC '远' 1; Kroll 2015 '遠' 1, p. 577; Ye Shengtao 1999, p. 10) -
yuǎn
adjective
far-reaching
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 深远 (GHC '远' 4; Kroll 2015 '遠' 2, p. 577) -
yuǎn
verb
separated from
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (GHC '远' 3; Kroll 2015 '遠' 3, p. 577) -
yuàn
verb
estranged from
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 疏远 (GHC '远' 9; Kroll 2015 '遠' 3a, p. 577) -
yuǎn
noun
milkwort
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Plant 植物
Notes: Bound in 远志; a medicinal plant (Kroll 2015 '遠' 4, p. 577) -
yuǎn
adjective
long ago
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 远 means 久远 (GHC '远' 2; Kroll 2015 '遠' 1, p. 577) -
yuǎn
adjective
long-range
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 远 means 远大 (GHC '远' 5). -
yuǎn
noun
a remote area
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 远 means 远地 (GHC '远' 6). -
yuǎn
proper noun
Yuan
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (GHC '远' 7) -
yuàn
verb
to leave
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 远 means 离开 (GHC '远' 8) -
yuàn
verb
to violate; to be contrary to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 远 means 违背 (GHC '远' 10)
Contained in
- 远地点(遠地點) apsis
- 远因(遠因) indirect cause; remote cause
- 扯远(扯遠) to digress; to get sidetracked; to go off on a tangent
- 小花远志(小花遠志) small-flowered milkwort (Polygala arvensis Willd. or P. telephioides), with roots used in Chinese medicine
- 高飞远走(高飛遠走) to fly high and run far; to leave in a hurry for a distance place
- 慎终追远(慎終追遠) pay careful attention to the funeraral rites of parents and remembered even when long gone
- 为远难守(爲遠難守) a distant region difficult to defend
- 绵远(綿遠) remote
- 远虑(遠慮) long term ; long-term considerations; to take the long view
- 骛远(騖遠) overambitious
- 远端转移(遠端轉移) metastasis
- 人无远虑,必有近忧(人無遠慮,必有近憂) He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).
- 老远(老遠) very far away
- 远达(遠達) to excel ; lofty and magnanimous
- 道远任重(道遠任重) a long road and a heavy load
- 永远(永遠) forever; eternal; always; permanent
- 远距离(遠距離) long-distance
- 远距离监视(遠距離監視) off-site monitoring
- 怀远(懷遠) Huaiyuan ; cherish from afar
- 深远(深遠) profound and lasting; far-reaching
- 玄远(玄遠) abstruse; profound
- 远渡重洋(遠渡重洋) to travel across the oceans
- 路途遥远(路途遙遠) distant; far-flung
- 极目远望(極目遠望) as far as the eye can see
- 远端胞浆(遠端胞漿) distal cytoplasm
- 远人(遠人) somebody who is far from home ; ethnic minority; natives from frontier regions
- 远涉(遠涉) to cross (the wide ocean)
- 道里辽远(道里遼遠) a distant journey
- 远近皆知(遠近皆知) known far and wide
- 远缘(遠緣) distantly related; remote affinity
- 不远千里(不遠千里) make light of traveling a thousand li; go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
- 远行(遠行) proceeding afar
- 长远(長遠) long-term; long-range
- 远郊(遠郊) outer suburbs; remote outskirts of a city
- 远房(遠房) distantly related; a distant relative
- 渊远(淵遠) deep; profound
- 远期(遠期) long term
- 远途(遠途) long-distance; long-haul
- 无远弗届(無遠弗屆) to extend all over the globe ; far-reaching
- 源远流长(源遠流長) source is distant and the flow is long; goes back to the distant past
Also contained in
远游冠服 、 抚远县 、 马致远 、 绥远省 、 平远县 、 怀远县 、 招远市 、 靖远县 、 远程登录 、 绥远 、 宁远县
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- 卷25 列傳第17 李賢 弟遠 Volume 25 Biographies 17: Li Xian; brother Yuan Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 48
- 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 41
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- 卷八十七 志第四十 地理三 Volume 87 Treatises 40: Geography 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 33
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 32
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Collocations
- 远兄弟 (遠兄弟) 遠兄弟父母 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧蝃蝀 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Di Dong — count: 8
- 远迩 (遠邇) 乃不畏戎毒于遠邇 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 盤庚上 Shang Shu - Pan Geng I — count: 7
- 远国 (遠國) 遠國之辭也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 5
- 终远 (終遠) 終遠兄弟 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧王‧葛藟 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wang - Ge Lei — count: 3
- 不亦远 (不亦遠) 不亦遠於禮乎 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
- 知远 (知遠) 疏通知遠 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《經解》 The Different Teachings of the Different Kings — count: 2
- 视远 (視遠) 視遠惟明 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 太甲中 Shang Shu - Tai Jia II — count: 2
- 议远 (議遠) 議遠邇 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 2
- 闻远 (聞遠) 聞遠兄弟之喪 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 2
- 云远 (雲遠) 道之云遠 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧雄雉 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Xiong Zhi — count: 2