• 遠とおい — far / distant
• 遠足えんそく — excursion / school trip
• 永遠えいえん — eternity
• 遠慮えんりょ — restraint / hesitation / holding back
• 遠回りとおまわり — detour
• 遠とおのく — to recede / to become distant

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• 遠距離えんきょり — long distance
• 遠隔えんかく — remote / at a distance
• 遠方えんぽう — long way off / distant place
• 遠洋えんよう — deep sea / ocean
• 敬遠けいえん — keeping at a distance / giving a wide berth
• 疎遠そえん — estranged / distant (relationship)
• 遠心力えんしんりょく — centrifugal force
• 望遠鏡ぼうえんきょう — telescope

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.