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远
Meaning
- far
- distant
- remote
Example sentence
南非很远。
South Africa is far away.
The character 远
远 has 辶, the walking radical, with 元 for the sound: far to walk. 很远, 远方, and 永远, forever, which is distance measured in time. 跳远 is the long jump where 跳高 goes upward.