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遥远

yáo yuǎn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 遙遠

遥远 (yáo yuǎn) means "distant". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 遥远 means

1. distant; remote

The characters in 遥远

• 遥yáo(bound form) distant; remote; far away
• 远yuǎnfar; distant; remote

Example sentences

• 星星太遥远了。
  The stars are too far away.
• 一个好邻居胜于一个遥远的朋友。
  A good neighbour is better than a faraway friend.
• 我回去很遥远的地方，不要问我那里。
  I'm going back to a place that is far away, don't ask me where.
• 现在我们很容易就能乘飞机去遥远的国度。
  Xiànzài wǒmen hěn róngyì jiù néng chéng fēijī qù yáoyuǎn de guódù.
  Today we can go to distant countries easily by plane.
• 哥伦布航行至遥远的西方，去寻找一个新大陆。
  Columbus sailed farther west to look for a new continent.
• 她觉得浑身不自在，尽管这个奇怪孩子的身体可能坐在桌子旁，但她的精神却在遥远的风尘云雾中遥不可及，高高地于想象力的翅膀上漂浮。
  Tā juéde húnshēn bù zìzai, jǐnguǎn zhège qíguài háizi de shēntǐ kěnéng zuò zài zhuōzi páng, dàn tā de jīngshén què zài yáoyuǎn de fēngchén yúnwù zhōng yáobùkějí, gāo gāodì yú xiǎngxiànglì de chìbǎng shàng piāofú.
  She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.

Words containing 遥远

• 路途遥远lù tú yáo yuǎnit's a very long journey to get there

Where 遥远 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yào–yī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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