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近jìn在zài咫zhǐ尺chǐ

  1. (idiom) very close; almost within reach; close at hand

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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4
近
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

near, close to, approximately

Pinyin
jìn
Strokes
7
Frequency
2373 of 2500
Words starting with 近Words ending in 近Anywhere in a word
在
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to exist; to be alive, (of sb or sth) to be (located) at, (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

Pinyin
zài
Strokes
6
Frequency
6 of 2500
Words starting with 在Words ending in 在Anywhere in a word
咫
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

8 in. length unit of Zhou dynasty

Pinyin
zhǐ
Strokes
9
Words starting with 咫Words ending in 咫Anywhere in a word
尺
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]

Pinyin
chě
Strokes
4
Frequency
4316 of 2500
Words starting with 尺Words ending in 尺Anywhere in a word