近 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. jì particle a modal particle
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHC '近' 7)

Contained in

• 近代 modern times ; modern Chinese history
• 近距离(近距離) close range
• 就近 nearby; in a close neighborhood
• 近郊区(近郊區) suburbs; city outskirts
• 近视(近視) shortsightedness; nearsightedness; myopia
• 挨近 to get close to; to approach
• 不近人情 not amenable to reason; unreasonable
• 好学近乎知，力行近乎仁，知耻近乎勇(好學近乎知，力行近乎仁，知恥近乎勇) to love learning is akin to knowledge, to study diligently is akin to benevolence, to know shame is akin to courage (Confucius)
• 渐近(漸近) approximation
• 近古藏语(近古藏語) Middle Tibetan
• 近朱者赤，近墨者黑 those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black
• 近郊 suburbs; outskirts
• 相近 to be close to; to be similar to ; nearly
• 新近 recent time
• 近照 recent photo
• 近乎 close to; intimate
• 近东(近東) Near East
• 假性近视(假性近視) pseudomyopia
• 晚近 most recent in the past; recent; late; recently
• 远近皆知(遠近皆知) known far and wide
• 远亲不如近邻(遠親不如近鄰) A relative afar is less use than a close neighbor . Take whatever help is on hand, even from strangers.
• 近端胞浆(近端胞漿) proximal cytoplasm
• 近似解 approximate solution
• 年近花甲 a person nearing sixty years of age
• 靠近 to be near; to approach
• 近代汉语(近代漢語) Old Mandarin; Early Mandarin
• 逐次近似 successive approximate values
• 濒近(瀕近) on the brink
• 近路 a shortcut
• 难于接近(難於接近) (of people) difficult to approach; inaccessible
• 远水不解近渴(遠水不解近渴) distant water does not cure present thirst; urgent need
• 近年来(近年來) for the past few years
• 近侍 a personal attendant ; to wait on; to attend on
• 人无远虑，必有近忧(人無遠慮，必有近憂) He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).
• 近火先燋 the one closest to the fire will be the first burned
• 近亲交配(近親交配) inbreeding
• 近代史 modern history
• 急功近利 eager for instant success and quick benefit; a shortsighted vision
• 接近 to be near; to be close to ; to approach
• 近零 to approach zero (in calculus)
• 凑近(湊近) to approach; to lean close to

Also contained in

近打 、 齿龈近音 、 近江国 、 浊圆唇软颚近音 、 习近平 、 近距离无线通讯 、 近音 、 唇齿近音 、 近场通信 、 卷舌近音

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• 卷19　志第14 天文上 Volume 19 Treatises 14: Astronomy 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 31
• 第二 律曆中 賈逵論曆 永元論曆 延光論曆 漢安論曆 熹平論曆 論月食 Volume 91: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Two Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 21
• 卷八十三　志第三十三: 　選舉三 Volume 83 Treatises 36: Selection of Officials 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 21
• 卷三十四　　　　志第二十四　　五行一 Volume 34 Treatises 28: Five Elements 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 18
• 卷十八　趙一 Chapter 18: Zhao I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 18
• 卷六十七 列傳第二十七 謝靈運 Volume 67 Biographies 27: Xie Lingyun Book of Song 宋書 — count: 18
• 卷三十六 志第十六: 天文下 Volume 36 Treatises 16: Astronomy 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 18
• 卷一百八十 列傳第六十八 張寧 王徽 毛弘 丘弘 李森 魏元 强珍 王瑞 李俊 汪奎 湯鼐 姜綰 姜洪 曹璘 彭程 龐泮 呂獻 葉紳 胡獻 張弘至 屈伸 王獻臣 Volume 180 Biographies 68: Zhang Ning, Wang Hui, Mao Hong, Qiu Hong, Li Sen, Wei Yuan, Qiang Zhen, Wang Rui, Li Jun, Wang Kui, Tang Nai, Jiang Wan, Jiang Hong, Cao Lin, Peng Cheng, Pang Pan, Lu Xian, Ye Shen, Hu Xian, Zhang Hongzhi, Qu Shen, Wang Xianchen History of Ming 明史 — count: 18
• 卷十一 志第一 天文上 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Astronomy Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 18
• 魏紀 Records of the Wei Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年 — count: 18

Collocations

• 近正 (近正) 近正也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 4
• 近刑人 (近刑人) 君子不近刑人 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
• 近止 (近止) 會言近止 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧杕杜 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Di Du — count: 3
• 近市 (近市) 子之宅近市 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 近关 (近關) 從近關出 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 言近 (言近) 會言近止 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧杕杜 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Di Du — count: 3
• 近小人 (近小人) 刺近小人也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧曹‧候人 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Hou Ren — count: 3
• 可近 (可近) 民可近 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 五子之歌 Xia Shu - Songs of the Five Sons — count: 2
• 近书 (近書) 以近書也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 2
• 近邑 (近邑) 吾近邑也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 2