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Mythic Mandarin

远房 (yuǎn fáng): meaning and stroke order

远房 (yuǎn fáng) means distantly related, a distant relative.

远房

Simplified
远房
Traditional
遠房
Pinyin
yuǎn fáng

Stroke order of 远房

远

  • yuǎn far; distant
  • yuàn to distance oneself from (classical)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 遠

Stroke by stroke

房

  • Fáng surname Fang
  • fáng house; room
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 远房

  1. yuǎn fáng Traditional 遠房
    • distantly related
    • a distant relative

Radicals of the characters

远
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 7 strokes · built from 辶 and 元
房
Radical 戶 (Kangxi radical 63) · 8 strokes · built from 户 and 方

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

远房 in our stories

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  • 远房舅公去世以后，律师宣读了他的遗嘱：房子给了女儿，存款捐给了学校，给聂川的，只有一个上了锁的旧木箱。

    yuǎnfáng jiùgōng qùshì yǐhòu lǜshī xuāndú le tā de yízhǔ fángzi gěi le nǚ'ér cúnkuǎn juān gěi le xuéxiào gěi Niè Chuān de zhǐ yǒu yí gè shàng le suǒ de jiù mùxiāng

    After his distant great-uncle died, the lawyer read out the will: the house went to his daughter, the savings to a school, and to Nie Chuan, only an old locked wooden box.

    From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6

Stories using 远房

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).