jìn

  1. jìn adjective nearby
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 遠水不救近火 'distant water cannot extinguish a nearby fire'from Han Feizi's Shuo Lin Shang (DCP 'Y448'; GHC '近' 1; Kroll 2015 '近' 1).
  2. jìn adverb recently
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
    Notes: (GHC '近' 5; Kroll 2015 '近' 2)
  3. jìn adjective to approach; to be near; to draw close to
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 靠近 (GHC '近' 2; Kroll 2015 '近' 1a)
  4. jìn adverb nearly
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '近' 1b)
  5. jìn adjective simple; ordinary
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 浅近 (GHC '近' 4; Kroll 2015 '近' 3)
  6. jìn verb to be intimate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 亲近 (GHC '近' 3)
  7. jìn proper noun Jin
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (GHC '近' 6)
  8. particle a modal particle
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHC '近' 7)

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