近い

Kana: ちかい

near; close

Example sentence

駅は家から近いです。

えきはいえからちかいです。

The station is near my house.

What 近い means

近い (ちかい) is a Japanese word meaning “near; close”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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