TSUMUGU · TOCFL 1 (est.) · 字
遠
遠 ＝ 辵 ＋ 袁
ㄩㄢˇ · yuǎn
adj — far, distant, remote
字源 FORM — what the parts do
辵義to walk, to go (辶)the road and the foot — movement
Tyuán → yuǎn — tone shifts
The road-and-foot (辵) goes, 袁 yuán carrying the sound, the tone tipping to yuǎn. 袁 is a long, trailing robe — a road that stretches long: far, distant. 遠近、遠方. Stretch it in time and it is long-term, far-seeing: 久遠、遠見.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
路（辵）像那件長袍（袁）一樣，一直拖到看不見頭——遠。
The road (辵) trails long as that robe (袁), running on past where the eye ends — that is 遠.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)遠近、遠方— far, distant常用
→久遠、永遠— far in time; long-term常用
⇒遠見、深遠— far-reaching, far-seeing
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension