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音読おんよみ: エン・オン

訓読くんよみ: とおい

画数かくすう: 13

部首ぶしゅ: しんにょう(辶)

Meaning

Far / Distant


  • とおい — far / distant
  • 遠足えんそく — excursion
  • 永遠えいえん — eternity
  • 遠慮えんりょ — restraint / hesitation
  • 遠距離えんきょり — long distance
  • 遠隔えんかく — remote / at a distance
  • 遠心力えんしんりょく — centrifugal force
  • 疎遠そえん — estranged / distant (relationship)
  • とおのく — to recede / to become distant

Frequently used in compound words about space, time, and emotional distance. Combines the movement radical with the idea of “going far,” so it appears in words about distance, remoteness, and even relationships growing apart.

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