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邻

lín

HSK 3 Character Traditional 鄰

What 邻 means

1. neighbor
2. adjacent
3. close to

Other readings

邻 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• línvariant of {邻|lín}

Example sentences

• 我们是邻居。
  We're neighbors.
• 他是我邻居。
  He's my neighbour.
• 德国毗邻荷兰。
  Déguó pílín Hélán.
  Germany adjoins the Netherlands.
• 远亲不如近邻。
  Yuǎnqīnbùrújìnlín.
  A close neighbor is better than a distant relative.
• 我们有新邻居。
  We have a new neighbor.
• 我是你的邻居。
  I am your neighbour.

Words starting with 邻

• 邻居lín jūneighbor
• 邻近lín jìnneighboring; adjacent; near
• 邻里lín lǐneighbor; neighborhood
• 邻家lín jiānext-door neighbor; neighboring household
• 邻国lín guóneighboring country
• 邻座lín zuòadjacent seat; the person in an adjacent seat
• 邻人lín rénneighbor
• 邻区lín qūneighborhood; vicinity
• 邻右lín yòuneighbor
• 邻域lín yù(math) neighborhood (in a topological space)
• 邻左lín zuǒneighbor
• 邻接lín jiēadjacent; next to
• 邻舍lín shèneighbor; person next door
• 邻邦lín bāngneighboring country
• 邻水县Lín shuǐ XiànLinshui, a county in Guang'an City 广安市
• 邻睦lín mùto be on friendly terms
• 邻苯醌lín běn kūn1,2-benzoquinone (chemistry); ortho-benzoquinone
• 邻苯二甲酸酯lín běn èr jiǎ suān zhǐphthalate (chemistry)
• 邻水Lín shuǐsee 邻水县
• 邻佑lín yòuvariant of 邻右

Words containing 邻

• 相邻xiāng línneighbor; adjacent
• 毗邻pí línbordering; adjacent to
• 紧邻jǐn línto be right next to; close neighbor
• 近邻jìn línclose neighbor
• 左邻右舍zuǒ lín yòu shèneighbors; next-door neighbors; related work units
• 四邻sì línone's nearest neighbors
• 比邻bǐ lín(literary) next-door neighbor; near; next to; Taiwan pr. bì lín
• 乡邻xiāng línfellow villager
• 友邻yǒu línfriendly neighbor; (of a military unit etc) neighboring and allied
• 地邻dì línneighbor on farmland
• 高邻gāo líndistinguished neighbor (honorific)
• 多邻国Duō lín guóDuolingo, a language-learning platform founded in 2011
• 卢照邻Lú Zhào línLu Zhaolin (637-689), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四杰
• 远亲不如近邻yuǎn qīn bù rú jìn línA relative afar is less use than a close neighbor (idiom). Take whatever help is on hand…
• 隔壁邻居gé bì lín jūnext-door neighbor
• 天涯若比邻tiān yá ruò bǐ línfar-flung realms as next door (idiom); close in spirit although far away
• 街坊邻里jiē fang lín lǐneighbors; the whole neighborhood
• 睦邻mù línto get on well with one's neighbors; amicable relationship with one's neighbor
• 睦邻政策mù lín zhèng cègood-neighbor policy
• 亲睦邻邦qīn mù lín bāngfriendly neighboring countries; to keep up good relations with neighboring countries
• 以邻为壑yǐ lín wéi hèto use one's neighbor as a drain; to shift one's problems onto others (idiom)
• 四邻八舍sì lín bā shè(idiom) the whole neighborhood
• 街坊四邻jiē fang sì línneighbors; the whole neighborhood
• 海内存知己，天涯若比邻hǎi nèi cún zhī jǐ , tiān yá ruò bǐ línclose friend in a distant land, far-flung realms as next door…

Characters that look like 邻

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 耶yē(phonetic ye)
• 郁yù(bound form) strongly fragrant
• 郊jiāosuburbs; outskirts
• 邳Pīsurname Pi; Han dynasty county in present-day Jiangsu; also pr. Péi
• 邹Zōusurname Zou; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC) in the southeast of…
• 邬Wūsurname Wu; ancient place name

Sounds the same

Read lín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 林(bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)…
• 临to face; to overlook; to arrive
• 淋to sprinkle; to drip; to pour
• 琳gem
• 鳞scales (of fish, snakes etc)
• 霖continued rain
• 磷(chemistry) phosphorus
• 遴(literary) to select
• 粼clear (as of water)
• 啉used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉
• 嶙ranges of hills
• 璘luster of gem