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偏远

piān yuǎn

2-character word Traditional 偏遠

What 偏远 means

1. remote
2. far from civilization

The characters in 偏远

• 偏piānto lean; to slant; oblique
• 远yuǎnfar; distant; remote

Example sentences

• 我以前住在一个偏远的小镇。
  I used to live in a remote town.
• 她出生于尼泊尔的一个偏远小山村。
  Tā chūshēng yú Níbó'ěr de yī gè piānyuǎn xiǎo shāncūn.
  She was born in a remote village in Nepal.
• 伊朗的一座偏远沙漠城市、德国的冰河时期洞穴、巴西为非洲奴隶船入港所建造的石头码头，这三个新景点被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产名录。
  A remote Iranian desert city, Ice Age-era caves in Germany and a stone wharf in Brazil built for arriving African slave ships are three new additions to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites.