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  gan6 kan5   jyutping
  jin4   pinyin
[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.
adjective
Stroke count: 8
Level: 1
Radical: (#162)

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

This word has been viewed 18846 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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detail  gan6 zyu6   = near something; close to something
detail  zeoi3 gan6  zui4 jin4 = recently
detail  gan6 doi6  jin4 dai4 = recent times
detail  gan6 dung1  jin4 dong1 = Near East
detail  kaau3 gan6  kao4 jin4 = be close to; be near; approaching
detail  zak1 gan6*1  ce4 jin4 = beside; next to
detail  fu6 gan6  fu4 jin4 = nearby; close to; in the vicinity
detail  bik1 gan6  bi1 jin4 = to press towards
detail  san1 gan6  xin1 jin4 = newly
detail  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 10 of 12 examples containing 近
detail audio 最近幾好
How have you been lately?
detail 請問附近哪裡藥房
Excuse me, is there a pharmacy around here?
detail 近排一直捱夜加班
Recently I've been staying up late, doing overtime non-stop.
[Lit. recently I always also stay-up-late do-overtime.]
detail 近排我哋滿意
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.]
detail 近排時間照顧仔女
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.]
detail audio 請勿靠近車門
Please stand back from the doors
[MTR announcement]
detail 近來一時一時鼓埋泡腮
She has been acting a little strange lately, one moment she is smiling sweetly, next moment she is grumpy
detail 近況如何?
How are things going with you?
detail 聽講話近排獵豹個人
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]
detail 近排當黑兼且官司
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]
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