近 (gan6 kan5 | jin4) : near; close

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近

gan6 kan5

jin4

[1] near; close; nearby; neighbouring
[2] approximate; approaching; close on
[3] intimate; closely related

Jyutping gan6 is literary reading; kan5 is strictly limited to colloquial context.

Stroke count: 8

Level: 1

Radical: (#162)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

近

This word has been viewed 20483 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 2nd Aug 2013 07:14

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近住 gan6 zyu6 = near something; close to something 粵

最近 zeoi3 gan6 zui4 jin4 = recently

近代 gan6 doi6 jin4 dai4 = recent times

近東 gan6 dung1 jin4 dong1 = Near East

靠近 kaau3 gan6 kao4 jin4 = be close to; be near; approaching

側近 zak1 gan6*1 ce4 jin4 = beside; next to 粵

附近 fu6 gan6 fu4 jin4 = nearby; close to; in the vicinity

逼近 bik1 gan6 bi1 jin4 = to press towards

新近 san1 gan6 xin1 jin4 = newly

將近 zoeng1 gan6 jiang1 jin4 = nearly; almost; close to
See all 69 compounds (CantoDict reports 71 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 12 examples containing 近

你最近幾好嗎？粵
How have you been lately?

請問，附近哪裡有藥房呀？國
Excuse me, is there a pharmacy around here?

近排我一直都捱夜加班粵
Recently I've been staying up late, doing overtime non-stop.
[Lit. recently I always also stay-up-late do-overtime.]

你近排做嘅嘢，我哋好滿意粵
We're satisfied with the work you've done recently.
[Lit. You recently do [particle] things, we [meaningless word] satisfied. Here, 好 has no particular meaning, and just serves to introduce the adjective afterwards.]

我近排好忙﹐冇時間照顧仔女。粵
I'm too busy these days to have time to take care of my children.
[The English phrase "too busy to have time" becomes "too busy and have no time" in Cantonese.]

請勿靠近車門
Please stand back from the doors
[MTR announcement]

佢近來怪怪哋，一時就笑口吟吟，一時就鼓埋泡腮粵
She has been acting a little strange lately, one moment she is smiling sweetly, next moment she is grumpy

你近況如何? 國
How are things going with you?

聽講話近排有隻獵豹喺呢頭殺咗三個人粵
I heard there's a cheetah who killed three people recently.
[Lit. hear-say-speech recently have [counter] cheetah at this area kill-[particle indicating completeness] three people See this thread for discussion on grammar: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,111098,111192#msg-111192]

陳仔近排當黑﹐冇咗份工兼且輸埋官司。粵
Chan was lately down on his luck, losing both his job and the court case.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,128378]

近來傳出啲流言蜚語，話老闆畀人捉黃腳雞粵
Recently there has been all these slanderous tales about the boss being blackmailed for having some extra-marital affair.

我最近戒咗煙，吸煙危害健康吖嘛! 粵
I've recently quit smoking, 'cause smoking is hazardous to health, right !
[吖嘛 is used here to reason out a statement that seems evidently true.]

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