IDENTITY
近jìnnear
HSK 2Top 400
CORE MEANING
near
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.near; closeHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 辶walk radical (chuò)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿺辶斤
- walking; distance
- gives the sound jìn
USAGE
Common words
附近fùjìnnearby
最近zuìjìnrecently
Graded examples
最近天气很好。Zuìjìn tiānqì hěn hǎo.HSK3
The weather has been great recently.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
An ax (斤) a short walk (辶) away — near.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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