近い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ちか
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *tika.

Adjective

近い (-i inflection, hiragana ちかい, rōmaji chikai)

  1. near, close to (in space)
  2. near (in time), at hand
  3. close, closely related
  4. near, not far off (in amount)
  5. similar in appearance, form, color, shape, etc.
  6. close, on good terms with

Inflection

Antonyms

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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