What 鄰 means
It names a neighbor or marks something as nearby.
The glyph’s trail begins with an early Western Zhou bronze form. Its earliest recorded role was a five-house administrative unit.
Its sense broadened to neighbors and nearby places, appearing in Chinese compounds such as 鄰居 (“neighbor”), 鄰近 (“nearby”), and 鄰國 (“neighboring country”).
鄰, 邻, and 隣: which form?
They share the neighbor sense but follow different standards.
鄰 is traditional Chinese; 邻 is simplified Chinese. 隣 is standard Japanese, where 鄰 is also recorded as a variant. In 鄰’s construction, 邑 is the settlement component and 粦 supplies the sound.
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-90Bb
This is the simplified Chinese form of traditional 鄰; both retain the sense of a neighbor or something nearby.
CJK Unified Ideograph-96A3
This is the standard Japanese form for the same neighbor sense; Japanese also records 鄰 as a variant.
CJK Unified Ideograph-9091
This is the settlement component in 鄰, linking the character’s construction to a place or community.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7Ca6
This is the sound-bearing component in 鄰’s traditional construction; it contributes pronunciation rather than a separate meaning here.
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How to type or find 鄰
- Search it as
- 鄰 · 邻 · 隣 · nearby · traditional Chinese neighbor
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
鄰CSS
\9130Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鄰
HTML hex
鄰
CSS content
content: "\9130";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%84%B0
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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