迢 (tiáo): far away

Meanings

1 far away
2 remote

Characters

迢

tiáo

far away; remote

Examples

HSK 3

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.

HSK 7-9

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.