邻
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neighbor; adjacent; close to
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 邑 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 鄰
- Common rank
- #1,534
- Unicode
- U+90BB
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
neighbor · Heisig RSH #2811
令 orders + city walls
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 邻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 邻水县 | Linshui, a county in Guang'an City 廣安市|广安市[Guang3 an1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 远亲不如近邻 | A relative afar is less use than a close neighbor (idiom). Take whatever help is on hand, … | |
| 多邻国 | Duolingo, a language-learning platform founded in 2011 | |
| 海内存知己，天涯若比邻 | close friend in a distant land, far-flung realms as next door; close in spirit although fa… | |
| 四邻八舍 | (idiom) the whole neighborhood | |
| 邻人 | neighbor | |
| 邻区 | neighborhood; vicinity | |
| 邻国 | neighboring country | |
| 邻水 | see 鄰水縣|邻水县[Lin2 shui3 Xian4] | |
| 地邻 | neighbor on farmland | |
| 邻家 | next-door neighbor; neighboring household | |
| 高邻 | distinguished neighbor (honorific) | |
| 邻里 | neighbor; neighborhood | |
| 相邻 | neighbor; adjacent | |
| 比邻 | (literary) next-door neighbor; near; next to; Taiwan pr. [bi4lin2] | |
| 四邻 | one's nearest neighbors | |
| 左邻右里 | see 左鄰右舍|左邻右舍[zuo3 lin2 you4 she4] | |
| 邻接 | adjacent; next to | |
| 邻座 | adjacent seat; the person in an adjacent seat | |
| 隔壁邻居 | next-door neighbor |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 令 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 令 sound part | command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause | |
| 领 | neck, collar; lead, guide | |
| 冷 | cold, cool; lonely | |
| 零 | zero; fragment, fraction | |
| 岭 | mountain ridge, mountain peak | |
| 龄 | age; years | |
| 铃 | small bell | |
| 怜 | to pity, to sympathize with | |
| 伶 | clever; lonely, solitary | |
| 玲 | the tinkling of jewelry | |
| 羚 | a species of antelope | |
| 鸰 | lark, wagtail; Motacilla species (various) | |
| 苓 | fungus, tuber; licorice | |
| 蛉 | dragonfly, sandfly; Libellulidae | |
| 呤 | purine | |
| 囹 | prison, enclosure | |
| 拎 | to lift, to haul, to take | |
| 翎 | plume, tail feathers | |
| 聆 | to hear, to listen |