Chinese Character Wiki
近

jìn

near

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 斤 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

斤 sound component

斤  Sound component

jīn

  

axe

Evolution

近 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
近 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
近 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

近  

jìn

near, close; approach; intimate; near; close to; approximately

Most common words with 近
Freq.
Word
Meaning

最近

recently

近

near

附近

nearby

接近

to approach

靠近

near

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-kərʔ

gj+nX

jìn

near

*s-N-kərʔ-s

gj+nH

jìn

"be near to (v.t.)


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 84.5907% of movies

403rd most common character in movies

374th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+8FD1

Shuowen

“近，附也。从辵，斤聲。，古文近。”


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