近

HSK 2#822 by frequencyradical 辶

jìn["a","v"]

near; close to; approximately

Examples

期限近了。

The deadline is approaching.

他年近六十。

He is close to sixty.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.