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
- —近畿地方Kinki region (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Mie and Shiga prefectures)
- —近日発売on sale soon; coming soon
- —近似貨幣near money
- —近点離角anomaly
- —近似雑音pseudonoise; PN
- —最近稼働recent activity
- —前近代的premodern; feudalistic
- —ごく最近very recently; in the very recent past
- —至近要因proximate cause (in contrast to an ultimate cause)
- —近世文学early-modern literature; Edo-period literature (1600-1867)
- —近親交配inbreeding
- —近交退化inbreeding depression
- —近交弱勢inbreeding depression
- —近交係数inbreeding coefficient; coefficient of consanguinity
- —赤道付近low latitudes; equatorial region
- —近赤外線near infrared ray; near infrared radiation
- —近現代史modern history; modern and current history; recent history; recent contemporary history
- —近代美術modern art
- —断熱近似adiabatic approximation
- —近接格闘close quarters combat; CQC