遙 (yáo)
distant; remote; far away
How 遙 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 辶 — walk
- Traditional
- 遙
- Simplified
- 遥
Components
- 辶 walk
- 缶 jar
- 月 moon
Common words using 遙
- 遙遠 yáoyuǎn
- distant; remote
- 逍遙 xiāoyáo
- free and unfettered
- 遙不可及 yáobùkějí
- unattainable; far-fetched; out of reach
- 遙控 yáokòng
- remote control
- 遙控器 yáokòngqì
- remote control
- 遙望 yáowàng
- to look into the distance
- 遙遙 yáoyáo
- distant; remote
- 遙遙無期 yáoyáowúqī
- far in the indefinite future (idiom); so far away it seems forever
- 平遙 píngyáo
- Pingyao county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
- 平遙縣 píngyáoxiàn
- Pingyao county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi
- 逍遙法外 xiāoyáofǎwài
- unfettered and beyond the law (idiom); evading retribution; getting away with it (e.g. crimes); still at large
- 逍遙自在 xiāoyáozìzai
- free and at leisure (idiom); unfettered; outside the reach of the law (of criminal); at large
遙 in a sentence
那個夢想看起來很遙遠。
Nàge mèngxiǎng kànqǐlái hěn yáoyuǎn.
“That dream seems very far away.”
How common is 遙?
遙 is the 1,713th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.9% of all running text.
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