遠く
とおく · tooku · JLPT N4 · noun
far away
🔭 tooku sounds like too-koo: too far to coo-ee across
遠く is the adverb/noun form of 遠い (tooi, far): drop い, add く. The long oo in too stretches out like the distance itself. 遠 carries the walking radical 辶, the mark of a long road to travel.