近 - Mandarin word #5126

近

jìn

Traditional: 近

#5126 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

near, close (in space or time)

Stroke order

近

？

How have you been recently?

园yuán。

There's a park near my house.

。

My home is very close to the school.

。

Recently the weather has turned cold.

近 (jìn) means near or close, used for both physical distance and recent time as in 最近 (zuì jìn) "recently" and 附近 (fù jìn) "nearby".

附近

nearby, in the vicinity of

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 近.

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This word is part of lesson 103.