Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 遠

Modern (Beijing) reading: yuǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: whanʔ

Classic Old Chinese: whán

Western Han Chinese: whán

Eastern Han Chinese: whán

Early Postclassic Chinese: whán

Middle Postclassic Chinese: whǝ́n

Late Postclassic Chinese: whǝ́n

Middle Chinese: wǝ́n

English meaning : be far away, distant, far-reaching, extending

Russian meaning[s]: 1) далекий, дальний, отдаленный; далеко; вдаль; издалека; 2) намного, значительно; 3) долго; надолго; продолжительный; 4) дальновидный, прозорливый; [yuàn] удалять(ся); сторониться; отстранять(ся)

Comments: Also read *whanʔ-s, MC wǝ̀n, Mand. yuàn 'to keep at a distance, keep away'. For *wh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen hŋ⁶, Chaozhou hŋ⁶, Fuzhou huoŋ⁶. Etymology see under 違.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 162

Four-angle index: 6593

Karlgren code: 0256 f-g

Vietnamese reading: viễn

Shijing occurrences: 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 33.3, 35.2, 39.2, 51.1, 51.2, 54.2_

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