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The character "遥", whose traditional form is "遙", is structured around the "辶" radical, which signifies movement or travel, combined with the phonetic and semantic component "䍃", a form historically associated with the making or shaking of pottery. This construction originally conveyed the concrete idea of traversing a long physical distance. Over time, its application broadened beyond mere spatial separation to encompass more abstract notions of remoteness, such as distant periods in history, unreachable goals, or metaphorical detachment, as seen in terms for longing or remote control. While its core concept of "far" or "distant" has remained consistent, the character's usage has shifted to emphasize these figurative and temporal dimensions as much as, if not more than, the purely geographical.
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那个地方很遥远。
我遥望美丽的山。
请用遥控器换台。
遥远的古代有很多传说。
科学家用遥感观测地球。
即使梦想遥远，也不应放弃。
遥控技术使得生活更方便。
在遥远的星系中，可能存在未知文明。