近 — Chinese character
近
jìn
to approach; near, close; intimate
- Pinyin
- jìn
- Radical
- 162 ⾡ (Walk)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 辶 斤
- Formation
- pictophonetic — walk; meaning component 辶; sound component 斤
- Japanese
- 近 as a kanji
Common words with 近
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently; soon |
| 附近 | fù jìn | nearby; neighboring; (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood |
| 接近 | jiē jìn | to approach; to get close to |
| 近期 | jìn qī | near in time; in the near future |
| 近日 | jìn rì | (in) the past few days; recently |
| 近年来 (近年來) | jìn nián lái | for the past few years |
| 靠近 | kào jìn | to be close to; to approach; to draw near |
| 近代 | jìn dài | the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades |
| 邻近 (鄰近) | lín jìn | neighboring; adjacent |
| 近年 | jìn nián | recent year(s) |
| 近来 (近來) | jìn lái | recently; lately |
| 将近 (將近) | jiāng jìn | almost; nearly |
English words written with 近
近 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 11 · Art of War 10 · Mencius 10 · Zhuangzi 13 · Great Learning 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 5
- Analects 1.13
- Analects 6.28
- Analects 8.4
- Analects 13.16
- Analects 13.27
- Analects 15.11
- Analects 16.1
- Analects 17.2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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