近
Pinyin: jìn
near; close
Example sentence
我家离学校很近。
Wǒ jiā lí xuéxiào hěn jìn.
My home is close to school.
What 近 means
近 (jìn) is a Chinese word meaning “near; close”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.