Jisho

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13 strokes (also 12)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
distant, far
Kun:
とお.い
On:
エンオン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
887 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 遠山 【エンザン】 distant mountain
  • 遠隔 【エンカク】 distant, remote, isolated
  • 望遠 【ボウエン】 seeing at a distance
  • 以遠 【イエン】 beyond, further than
  • 遠忌 【オンキ】 anniversary of a death twelve or more years earlier
  • 遠諱 【オンキ】 semicentennial memorial service
  • 久遠 【クオン】 eternity

Kun reading compounds

  • 遠い 【とおい】 far, distant, far away, a long way off, in the distance, distant (past), remote (in time), remote, far-removed (in time), distant (relationship or kinship), having little to do (with someone), far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.), not similar, way off, hard (of hearing), nearsighted
  • 遠い昔 【とおいむかし】 remote past, far ago, time immemorial

Readings

Japanese names:
お、 おに、 ど、 どお
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan3, yuan4
Korean:
weon

Spanish

  • lejos
  • distante

Portuguese

  • distante
  • longe

French

  • loin
  • distant
160 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
85 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
79 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
803 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4733 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
326 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
264 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2043 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.5 Japanese for Busy People
446 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
453 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
110 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
714 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3906 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2013 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2715 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
409 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39047P Morohashi
3150 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6101 New Nelson (John Haig)
402 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
429 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
224 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1465 2001 Kanji
2q10.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-10 SKIP code
3430.3 Four corner code
1-17-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9060 Unicode hex code

9 strokes (also 8)
Radical:
town (阝 right) 邑 (阝)
Parts:
outskirts, suburbs, rural area
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1304 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 郊外 【コウガイ】 suburb, residential area on the outskirt of a city, commuter belt
  • 郊外化 【コウガイカ】 suburbanization
  • 南郊 【ナンコウ】 southern suburbs
  • 北郊 【ホッコウ】 northern suburbs

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jiao1
Korean:
gyo

Spanish

  • afueras
  • suburbios
  • área rural

Portuguese

  • periferia
  • subúrbios
  • área rural

French

  • périphérie
  • banlieue
  • zone rurale
1254 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1237 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4761 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1030 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
968 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
888 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
817 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
836 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
503 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
756 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1638 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
864 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1181 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1861 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39392 Morohashi
1286 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6137 New Nelson (John Haig)
1844 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1987 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1299 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
444 2001 Kanji
2d6.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-3 SKIP code
1-6-2 SKIP code
0742.7 Four corner code
1-25-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
90ca Unicode hex code