Chinese symbol for “suburbs”
近郊
jìn jiāo
suburbs; outskirts
The closest CC-CEDICT match for suburbs is 近郊 (jìn jiāo), defined as: suburbs; outskirts.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “suburbs”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城郊 | chéng jiāo | suburbs; outskirts of a city |
| 郊 | jiāo | suburbs; outskirts |
| 郊区 (郊區) | jiāo qū | suburban district; outskirts; suburbs |
| 郛 | fú | suburbs |
| 近郊区 (近郊區) | jìn jiāo qū | suburbs; city outskirts |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 近郊.
| 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 |
| 郊区 (郊區) | jiāo qū | suburban district; outskirts; suburbs |
| 郊外 | jiāo wài | outskirts |
See also: Japanese symbol for “suburbs”.
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.