Kana: となり

beside; next to

Example sentence

店は学校の隣にあります。

みせはがっこうのとなりにあります。

The store is next to the school.

What 隣 means

(となり) is a Japanese word meaning “beside; next to”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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