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新近

xīn jìn

2-character word

What 新近 means

1. newly

The characters in 新近

• 新xīnnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
• 近jìnnear; close to; approximately

Example sentences

• 他新近皈依的天主教徒。
  Tā xīnjìn guīyī de Tiānzhǔjiàotú.
  He is a recent convert to Catholicism.

Sounds the same

Read xīn jìn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 心劲thoughts; what one has in one's heart
• 新晋(of a role or status) newly appointed; newly become; newly minted