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Characters, words, pinyin or English

邻 lín neighbor

neighbor; adjacent

How to remember 邻: 令 command + 阝 mound = neighbor. Every morning the retired colonel shouts a command to his dog from the little garden mound and wakes up the neighbor.

  • 1,659. most frequent character
  • HSK 3
  • 7 strokes
  • Radical 邑

Component breakdown

邻 = 令 command + 阝 mound

  • 令 command
  • 阝 mound
The Gushi story

Every morning the retired colonel shouts a command to his dog from the little garden mound and wakes up the neighbor.

How it is used

  • 'Neighboring/adjacent' - mainly in 邻居 (línjū) neighbor and 邻国 (línguó) neighboring country, 邻近 (línjìn) nearby.
  • The 阝 on the right is the 'city/place' mound, fitting its spatial-proximity meaning.
  • 相邻 (xiānglín) = adjacent to each other, used for regions, seats, or numbers.

Words with 邻

Example sentences

  • 她是我的邻居。 Tā shì wǒ de línjū.She's my neighbor.