HSK 3 · Family

邻居 línjū “neighbour” in Chinese

Traditional 鄰居

What 邻居 means

  1. neighbour

How to say 邻居

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale邻lín2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale居jū1st tone, high and level

邻居 in a sentence

  1. 我和我的邻居关系很好。

    Wǒ hé wǒ de línjū guānxi hěn hǎo.

    I get on well with my neighbours.

    Sentence #346808 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我认识我所有的邻居。

    Wǒ rènshi wǒ suǒyǒu de línjū.

    I know all my neighbours.

    Sentence #5617277 from Tatoeba

  3. 我们的邻居有两只褐色的狗。

    Wǒmen de línjū yǒu liǎng zhī hèsè de gǒu.

    Our neighbour has two brown dogs.

    Sentence #6807303 from Tatoeba

How 邻居 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 邻 (lín) with each of its parts in a different colour
邻línneighbour
  • 令command · língSound part
  • 阝placeMeaning part

阝 hints at the meaning (place); 令 (líng) hints at the sound. Compare it with lín.

The character 居 (jū) with each of its parts in a different colour
居jūto reside; to live
  • 户door · hùMeaning part
  • 古old · gǔSound part

户 hints at the meaning (door); 古 (gǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with jū.

How to write 邻居

邻 7 strokes · 居 8 strokes

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

Words related to 邻居

Words with 居

居然jūrán · unexpectedly居民jūmín · resident居住jūzhù · to live (in a place)

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FAQs

邻居 (línjū) means “neighbour”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it línjū: lín with a 2nd tone, then jū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 邻居 is written 鄰居. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type linju with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 邻居 from the suggestions. Typing linju into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
邻居 is an HSK 3 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.