逖 (tì): distant

Meanings

1 distant
2 remote
3 far away (literary)

Characters

逖

tì

distant, remote (literary)

Examples

HSK 7-9

逖彼荒野，难以抵达。

Tì bǐ huāngyě, nányǐ dǐdá.

That distant wilderness is hard to reach.

HSK 7-9

逖远之地，人迹罕至。

Tì yuǎn zhī dì, rénjìhǎnzhì.

In that remote and distant land, human traces are rare.

Tips

register

逖 is a literary/classical character rarely used in modern Chinese. It appears mainly in historical texts, classical poetry, and as a personal name.

Components

radical

辶 chuò

walk; movement (radical form)

Walking radical 辶 - the indexing radical, side-form of 辵 in its bottom-left wrap position. Anchors 逖 firmly in the family of motion-and-distance words: 远 far, 近 near, 进 advance, 退 retreat, 遥 distant. Here it concretises the sense of going far away, far off into the distance.

phonetic

狄 dí

Di (ancient northern tribes)

Right component 狄 supplies the sound (dí to tì, regular dental-stop drift) and a faint semantic flavour: 狄 was the ancient name for the nomadic peoples of the far north, beyond the Central Plains. Pairing 'walk' with 'distant northern tribes' gives the literary meaning 'far off, remote' - and the related verb 逖闻 'to hear of from afar'.