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近く

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
近
ちか
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Japanese.[1] The noun sense is a nominalization of the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of classical adjective 近(ちか)し (chikashi, “near”), equivalent to modern 近(ちか)い (chikai).

Adverb

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近(ちか)く • (chikaku) 

  1. soon, before long

Noun

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近(ちか)く • (chikaku) 

  1. vicinity; neighborhood
  2. (after a number) about; roughly; around

References

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  1. ^ “近い”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
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