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近

near, early, akin, tantamount

  • 7 strokes
  • Taught in grade 2 (kyōiku kanji)
  • No. 194 of 2,500 in newspapers

On'yomi

キン、コン

Kun'yomi

ちか.い

A dot marks where the okurigana begin.

Stroke order

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7

Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.

Shapes inside it

The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 近 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.

Written with 近 16 words

Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.

JLPT N5 · 2 words

JLPT N4 · 2 words

JLPT N3 · 3 words

JLPT N2 · 5 words

JLPT N1 · 4 words

Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 近.

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