近 Posted on August 1, 2019December 26, 2022 by Chai Laoshi 汉字 拼音 部首 部首意思 汉字意思 近 jìn 辶 walking close, nearby
When you are CLOSE to your destination you can 听 the place.
It looks like someone on a scooter pointing to destination, as if to say the place is very ‘near’.
The person is about to open the door to get into the café that they looked up on google maps. The app says your location is very CLOSE/Nearby
someone is riding an electric scooter and pointing to something
The walking radical has a character “close” to it.
When you walk (辶) towards someone to hear (听) them, you get close to them.
近 has the walk radical and a component that looks like the one in 听, for listen. if you are close to something, you can hear it near you.
First there is the walking radical. On the right there is also part of 听. Together this mean, if someone is close, I can HEAR them WALKING.
it looks like the word hear (except hear has a mouth radical). when something is CLOSE to you, you can walk there and hear them