遠い

Kana: とおい

far

Example sentence

学校は駅から遠いです。

がっこうはえきからとおいです。

The school is far from the station.

What 遠い means

遠い (とおい) is a Japanese word meaning “far”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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