HSK 6 · Places

就近 jiùjìn “nearby” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 就近 means

  1. nearby
  2. in the neighbourhood
  3. in a close neighbourhood

How to say 就近

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale就jiù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale近jìn4th tone, falling

就近 in a sentence

  1. 孩子可以就近上学。

    Háizi kěyǐ jiùjìn shàngxué.

    Children can go to a school close to home.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 下雨了，我们就近找了家咖啡馆。

    Xiàyǔ le, wǒmen jiùjìn zhǎo le jiā kāfēiguǎn.

    It started raining, so we found a café nearby.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 就近 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 就 (jiù) with each of its parts in a different colour
就jiùin that case; then
  • 京capital city · jīngSound part
  • 尤especially · yóuMeaning part

尤 hints at the meaning (especially); 京 (jīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiù.

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 就近

就 12 strokes · 近 7 strokes

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

Words related to 就近

Words with 就

就jiù · then就要jiùyào · about to就是jiùshì · exactly成就chéngjiù · accomplishment将就jiāngjiu · to make do迁就qiānjiù · to accommodate就业jiùyè · employment就职jiùzhí · to take office

Words with 近

近jìn · near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将近jiāngjìn · nearly急功近利jígōngjìnlì · eager for quick results and profit

More words: Places & Geography

基地jīdì · base (of operations)籍贯jíguàn · ancestral home井jǐng · well (for water)经纬jīngwěi · longitude and latitude领土lǐngtǔ · territory畔pàn · bank (of a river or lake)盆地péndì · basin (geography)偏僻piānpì · remote

FAQs

就近 (jiùjìn) means “nearby” or “in the neighbourhood”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jiùjìn: jiù with a 4th tone, then jìn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 就近 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiujin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 就近 from the suggestions. Typing jiujin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
就近 is an HSK 6 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.