poetic/literary or dialect <诗/文, 方>
- yonder; that彼处; 那边：
as determiner there's some big ranches yon side of the Sierra.内华达山脉的另一侧有一些大牧场。
- yonder person or thing那边（或远处）的人（或事物）：
what do you make of yon?
你觉得远处的那个是什么？
短语
hither and yon
- another term for HITHER AND THITHER.同hither and thither.
词源
Old English geon, of Germanic origin; related to German jener 'that one'.