The kanji 近: meaning, readings and stroke order
近
- Meaning
- near
- On reading
- キン kin
- Kun reading
- ちか(い) chikai
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辵 walk
- Level
- Level 2 · grade 2
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- gần (cận)
- Japanese
- ちかい。
- Korean
- 가깝다 (근)
- Chinese
- 近
Readings, words and example sentences
キン kin · on reading
近年
recent years
近年 雪が 少なく なりました。
In recent years there has been less snow.
ちか(い) chikai · kun reading
近い
near, close
学校は 家から 近いです。
School is close to my house.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.