U+8FDC "远" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

远

U+8FDC "远" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "far" or "distant" in terms of physical distance or time, and it is composed of the radical for "movement" or "walk" on the left and a phonetic component on the right that suggests the sound "yuan." This character is used extensively in modern and classical Chinese writing, appearing in common words such as "远方" (faraway place) and "长远" (long-term). It belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, and its traditional form is written as "遠," though "远" is the simplified version standardized in mainland China, Singapore, and Malaysia. The character's etymology traces back to ancient seal script, where it originally conveyed the idea of traveling a great distance, reflecting its enduring role in expressing spatial and temporal remoteness across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8FDC
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	远
HTML Hex Encoding	远
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBF 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8FDC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008FDC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8fdc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	233C79
kCangjie	YMMU
kCantonese	jyun5
kDefinition	distant, remote, far; profound
kEACC	275C44
kFennIndex	652.09
kFourCornerCode	3130
kGB0	5222
kHanYu	63818.060
kHanyuPinlu	yuǎn(1036)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63818.060
kIRGKangXi	1254.171
kIRG_GSource	G0-5436
kIRG_TSource	TF-2871
kIRG_VSource	V1-692B
kTGH	2013:608
kKangXi	1254.171
kMainlandTelegraph	6678
kMandarin	yuǎn
kPhonetic	1624 1626 1632
kRSUnicode	162.4
kSimplifiedVariant	"远" U+8FDC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	692.18
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+9060<kFenn
kTGHZ2013	452.050:yuǎn
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"远" U+8FDC CJK Unified Ideograph-# "遠" U+9060 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kVietnamese	viễn
kXHC1983	1425.080:yuǎn