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迢

tiáo
adjective #88,569

Meanings

  1. 1 far away
  2. 2 remote

Examples

他千里迢迢地赶回了家乡。
Tā qiānlǐtiáotiáo de gǎn huí le jiāxiāng.
He traveled a long, long way back to his hometown.
山路迢远，很难走。
Shānlù tiáo yuǎn, hěn nán zǒu.
The mountain road was distant and hard to walk.

Tips

usage
迢 is almost always doubled in 千里迢迢 ('a thousand li, far far away'), describing a long, tiring journey. Outside that phrase it has a literary, poetic ring.

Components

radical
辶 chuò
to walk; movement
The walking radical, always written last in stroke order. It frames 迢 as something about distance covered on foot, hence the 'far away, remote' sense.
phonetic
召 zhào
to summon; to call
Provides the sound, with zhào shifting to tiáo. The 'summon' meaning does not carry over; here it works only as the phonetic part.

Stroke Order

迢 tiáo