HSK 2 · Adjectives

近 jìn “near” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 近 means

  1. near
  2. close to
  3. approximately

How to say 近

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale近jìn4th tone, falling

近 in a sentence

  1. 我们学校离公园非常近。

    Wǒmen xuéxiào lí gōngyuán fēicháng jìn.

    Our school is very close to the park.

    Sentence #408485 from Tatoeba

  2. 最近的火车站在哪里？

    Zuìjìn de huǒchēzhàn zài nǎlǐ?

    Where’s the nearest train station?

    Sentence #481169 from Tatoeba

  3. 我叔叔住在学校附近。

    Wǒ shūshu zhù zài xuéxiào fùjìn.

    My uncle lives near the school.

    Sentence #332488 from Tatoeba

How 近 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 近 (jìn) with each of its parts in a different colour
近jìnnear
  • 斤axe · jīnSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 斤 (jīn) hints at the sound. Compare it with jìn.

How to write 近

近 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

近 (jìn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 近 (jìn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 近

Words with 近

最近zuìjìn · recently附近fùjìn · nearby近代jìndài · modern times (roughly 1840 to 1919 in China)接近jiējìn · to approach近来jìnlái · recently就近jiùjìn · nearby将近jiāngjìn · nearly急功近利jígōngjìnlì · eager for quick results and profit

More words: Adjectives

快kuài · fast长cháng · long高gāo · tall远yuǎn · far贵guì · expensive便宜piányi · cheap黑hēi · black白bái · white

FAQs

近 (jìn) means “near” or “close to”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it jìn: jìn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 近 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 近 from the suggestions. Typing jin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
近 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.