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Mythic Mandarin

邻居 (lín jū): meaning and stroke order

邻居 (lín jū) means neighbor, 个.

邻居

Simplified
邻居
Traditional
鄰居
Pinyin
lín jū

Stroke order of 邻居

邻

  • lín neighbor; adjacent
  • lín variant of 鄰|邻[lin2]
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鄰

Stroke by stroke

居

  • Jū surname Ju
  • jī (archaic) sentence-final particle expressing a doubting attitude
  • jū to reside; to be (in a certain position)
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 邻居

  1. lín jū Traditional 鄰居
    • neighbor
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

邻
Radical 邑 (Kangxi radical 163) · 7 strokes · 令 on the left, 阝 on the right
居
Radical 尸 (Kangxi radical 44) · 8 strokes · built from 尸 and 古

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

邻居 in our stories

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  • 他问邻居，邻居们都说不知道。

    tā wèn línjū línjū men dōu shuō bù zhīdao

    He asked his neighbours, but they all said they didn't know.

    From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4

  • 钱多多哭笑不得，最后把这个小沙发送给了邻居家的小女孩。

    Qián Duōduō kūxiào-bùdé zuìhòu bǎ zhè gè xiǎo shāfā sònggěi le línjū jiā de xiǎo nǚhái

    Qian Duoduo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In the end he gave the little sofa to the girl next door.

    From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

  • 他们的想法是做一个手机软件，让邻居之间可以互相借东西：电钻、梯子、帐篷……

    tāmen de xiǎngfǎ shì zuò yí gè shǒujī ruǎnjiàn ràng línjū zhījiān kěyǐ hùxiāng jiè dōngxi diànzuàn tīzi zhàngpeng

    Their idea was a phone app that let neighbours lend each other things: drills, ladders, tents…

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

Stories using 邻居

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).