Chinese symbol for “near”
近
jìn
near; close to; approximately
The closest CC-CEDICT match for near is 近 (jìn), defined as: near; close to; approximately.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “near”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挨着 (挨著) | āi zhe | near |
| 傍 | bàng | near; approaching |
| 紧 (緊) | jǐn | tight; strict |
| 傍边 (傍邊) | bàng biān | near; beside |
| 邻近 (鄰近) | lín jìn | neighboring; adjacent |
Related words
Other words that share a character 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “near”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.