近 is the Japanese kanji for near, early, akin, tantamount. It is written with 7 strokes and appears at JLPT level N4. Its kun reading is ちか.い and its on reading is キン、コン.
Stroke order
Words with 近
- 近いnear, close, short (distance)
- 近くnear, neighbourhood, neighborhood
- 近づきacquaintance, making someone's acquaintance
- 最近recently, lately, these days
- 近代present day, modern times, recent times
- 付近neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity
Practice 近 with brush strokes, spaced repetition and quizzes in the app.