近 (jìn)
near; close; recent
How 近 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辶 — walk
- Traditional
- 近
- Simplified
- 近 (unchanged)
Components
- 辶 walk
- 斤 axe
Common words using 近
- 最近 zuìjìn
- recent; recently; these days
- 將近 jiāngjìn
- almost; nearly; close to
- 接近 jiējìn
- to approach; to get close to
- 臨近 línjìn
- close to; approaching
- 親近 qīnjìn
- intimate; to get close to
- 近來 jìnlái
- recently; lately
- 近年 jìnnián
- recent year(s)
- 近日 jìnrì
- in the past few days; recently; in the last few days
- 近期 jìnqī
- near in time; in the near future; very soon
- 近視 jìnshì
- shortsighted; nearsighted; myopia
- 附近 fùjìn
- (in the) vicinity; nearby; neighboring
- 靠近 kàojìn
- near; to approach
近 in a sentence
我家離捷運站很近。
Wǒ jiā lí jiéyùnzhàn hěn jìn.
“My house is very close to the MRT station.”
How common is 近?
近 is the 374th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 69.5% of all running text.
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