viễn
Definition
- Adjective:
- Far, distant, remote: Describes something that is located at, or relates to, a great distance in space or time.
- Long-sighted, farsighted (hyperopic): In optics and medicine, describes a condition of the eye where distant objects are seen more clearly than near ones.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (Far, distant):
- Kế hoạch này là một mục tiêu viễn. (This plan is a distant goal.)
- Anh ấy đến từ một miền viễn Tây. (He comes from a far western region.)
- Adjective (Long-sighted):
- Ông tôi bị viễn thị nên phải đeo kính viễn. (My grandfather is farsighted so he has to wear glasses for long sight.)
Advanced Usage
- Used in formal, literary, or technical contexts. In modern everyday speech, "xa" is more common for "far," while "viễn" is often found in compound words or fixed phrases.
- "viễn cảnh": prospect, vision, outlook (a view into the distant future).
- Viễn cảnh tương lai rất sáng sủa. (The future prospects are very bright.)
- "viễn vông": unrealistic, fanciful, illusory (literally: distant and floating).
- Đó là một ý tưởng viễn vông. (That is an unrealistic idea.)
Variants and Related Words
- Viễn thị (n): farsightedness, hyperopia (the medical condition).
- Trẻ em đôi khi cũng bị viễn thị. (Children sometimes also have farsightedness.)
- Viễn chinh (v/n): to go on a distant expedition; a distant expedition.
- Đoàn quân viễn chinh. (The expeditionary force.)
- Viễn thông (n): telecommunications.
- Công ty viễn thông. (A telecommunications company.)
- Viễn kính (n): telescope (less common, "kính thiên văn" is standard).
- Nhìn qua viễn kính. (To look through a telescope.)
Synonyms
- Xa: far, distant (more common in everyday use for physical distance).
- Dài hạn: long-term (for time).
- Hyperopic: farsighted (medical term).
Related Idioms
- Viễn cổ: remote antiquity.
- Những truyền thuyết từ thời viễn cổ. (Legends from remote antiquity.)
- Viễn phương: a faraway place.
- Gửi gắm tâm tư về viễn phương. (To send one's thoughts to a faraway place.)