Kanji Detail for 鄰 - "neighbor, neighboring, administrative unit"

鄰

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
鄰 means "neighbor, neighboring, administrative unit."
1. Neighbor - An adjacent house or country.
2. Neighboring - To be adjacent; to approach.
3. Administrative unit - A Zhou dynasty division of five households.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

neighbor; neighborhood

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

neighbor; neighborhood

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

neighbor; adjacent; close to

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

neighbor; neighborhood

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Near. Five families constitute a 鄰. Found in the Rites of Zhou. Today, all who live nearby are called 鄰 (neighbors). As in 擇鄰 (choose neighbors), 卜鄰 (divine for neighbors). Also, bordering countries are called 鄰國. | To be close to. As in saying someone about to die is "becoming neighbors with ghosts."
Onyomi

rin(りん)
Kunyomi

tona.ru(となる)

tonari(となり)
Strokes

19 strokes
Radical

邑阝 (ozato・mura)
Related Keywords
neighbor adjacent house country neighboring approach administrative unit zhou dynasty division five households