Definitions
distant; joyous; satisfied
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逌 is a phono-semantic compound or ideogram, depending on interpretation, built around the walking radical 辶, which indicates motion, travel, or traversing distances. In classical Chinese it functioned as a particle or adverb, often interchangeable with similar-sounding characters, to convey several meanings: proceeding towards a location, the prepositions "from" or "by way of", and a state of being at ease and smiling. Highly classical and now extremely rare, the character appears only as a grammatical tool or descriptive element in ancient prose and poetry, where the radical 辶 grounds these abstract functions in the physical concept of following a path and moving forward.
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