Kanji1 / 7
近 kanji
near, early, akin, tantamount
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
キンコン
Kun readings
ちかい
Words with 近
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —近代語modern Japanese (as spoken since the Middle Ages); Japanese spoken during the Meiji period (sometimes including the late Edo period and/or the Taishō period)
- —近過去recent past tense (e.g. passato prossimo in Italian); present perfect; recent past
- —集近閉three Cs; three conditions that facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases (closed spaces, crowds, and close contact)
- —安近短cheap, short in duration, and close to home (of a trip, vacation, etc.)
- —最接近closest approach
- —接近音approximant
- —大接近close approach
- —近古音Early Modern Chinese
- —近畿圏wider Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Shiga, Wakayama and Fukui prefectures); wider Kansai area
- —近親姦incest
- —近接戦close-quarters combat; close-quarters battle; CQC; CQB
- —近隣県neighbouring prefecture
- —遠近感sense of perspective; feeling of depth (e.g. to a painting)
- —親近者close relative; near relative; close associate; intimate friend; confidant
- —前近代premodern times; premodern era
- —仮性近視false shortsightedness; pseudomyopia
- —近親相姦incest
- —近代科学modern science
- —近隣諸国neighboring countries; neighbouring countries; surrounding countries
- —接近経路avenue of approach