Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

194 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: near, early, akin, tantamount

Kunyomi: ちか.い

Onyomi: キン コン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: しんにょう

Meaning: walk

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

視(きんし)   shortsightedness

所(きんじょ)   neighborhood

(さいきん)   recently

代(きんだい)   modern

する(せっきんする)   approach

く(ちかく)   nearby [n.]

い(ちかい)   nearby [adj.]

付く(ちかづく)   come near, approach

道(ちかみち)   shortcut

な(みぢかな)   close, familiar

Onyomi Examples

キンキ Kinki (region around Osaka, Kyoto, Nara)

キンカイ coastal waters, adjacent seas

ごく最 ゴクサイキン very recently, in the very recent past

シキン very near

コンル banishment (to a nearby province), the least severe of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryō system

Kunyomi Examples

ちかい near, close, short (distance), close (in time), soon, close (relationship), friendly, intimate, closely related, similar, almost the same, close to, nearly

いうちに ちかいうちに before long