Word: 衣 - Clothes
Pronounced: ㄧ || Yī
Expansion
哀 - P: ㄞ || Āi - to grieve, to mourn, to lament
At the top of clothes you have the radical 亠. If you put the character for mouth (口) between the top radical 亠 and the bottom part you can build the word grieve/mourn: 哀
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袁 - P: ㄩㄢˊ || Yuán - the surname
Remove the radical 亠 from the top of to grieve 哀 and add the character for soil/earth 土 you can create the surname 袁 most famously used by Yuan Shikai.
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遠 - P: ㄩㄢˇ || Yuǎn
Add the radical for walk 辶 to the suraname 袁 and you can build the character for far away 遠.
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