Chinese symbol for “neighboring”
邻近
lín jìn
Traditional: 鄰近
neighboring; adjacent; near; vicinity
The closest CC-CEDICT match for neighboring is 邻近 (lín jìn), defined as: neighboring; adjacent; near; vicinity.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “neighboring”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 邻近.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 邻居 (鄰居) | lín jū | neighbor |
| 邻国 (鄰國) | lín guó | neighboring country |
| 相邻 (相鄰) | xiāng lín | neighbor; adjacent |
| 毗邻 (毗鄰) | pí lín | bordering; adjacent to |
| 邻里 (鄰里) | lín lǐ | neighbor; neighborhood |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “neighboring”.
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.