Memory phrase for the character: 遥

遥

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Meaning distant, remote, far, far away

Pronunciation

yáo

Explanation

Left: movement 辶, right: 䍃 (hand from above 爫, can 缶 (lid and can opener 十 of that can 凵)

Mnemonic
 
If it takes a movement to get from above to the can, it is distant.

Radicals

辶 movementIn some cases this radical 廴 is used, but the mnemonics are the same.
爫 reaching downwardsShows a hand reaching downwards to pluck sth.
缶 can, jarIn Chinese this character 缶 is hardly used. Thus its meaning "can, jar" is taken from Japanese: 缶 (=かん), which means: "the can".
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 Vocabulary

遥远 yáo yuǎn  distant; remote
遥控 yáo kòng  remote control
遥测 yáo cè  telemetry
逍遥 xiāo yáo  free and unfettered
逍遥自得 xiāo yáo zì dé  doing as one pleases (idiom); foot-loose and fancy free
逍遥自在 xiāo yáo zì zai  free and at leisure (idiom); unfettered; outside the reach of the law (of criminal); at large
逍遥自在 xiāo yáo zì zai  

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