ěr
be near
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 邇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to be famous far and wide (idiom) | ||
near | ||
near and far | ||
famous everywhere | ||
to long for sb far away |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*n[ə][r]ʔ | nyeX | ěr | near |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4328th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9087 |
Shuowen | “邇,近也。从辵,爾聲。迩,古文邇。” |
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