最近
zuì jìn 4–4
recently; soon; nearest
- Characters
- 2
- 最 · 近
- Syllables
- 2
- zuì jìn
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 612
Part of speech: t
Character by character
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Example sentences
最近怎么样？
Zuì jìn zěn me yàng
How have you been recently?
最近还好么？
Zuì jìn hái hǎo me
You've been well lately?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 最近. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 最zuìHSK 1
most; the most; -est (superlative suffix)
- 最后zuì hòuHSK 1
final; last; finally; ultimate
- 近jìnHSK 2
near; close to; approximately
- 最终zuì zhōngHSK 6
final; ultimate
- 附近fù jìnHSK 4
nearby; neighboring; (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood
- 最好zuì hǎoHSK 1
best; (you) had better (do what we suggest)
- 接近jiē jìnHSK 3
to approach; to get close to
- 最佳zuì jiāHSK 6
optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc)
- 靠近kào jìnHSK 5
to be close to; to approach; to draw near
- 最初zuì chūHSK 4
first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally
- 近来jìn láiHSK 5
recently; lately
- 近期jìn qīHSK 3
near in time; in the near future; very soon; recent
- 将近jiāng jìnHSK 3
almost; nearly; close to
- 亲近qīn jìnHSK 7
intimate; to get close to
- 临近lín jìnHSK 7
close to; approaching
- 走近zǒu jìnHSK 7
to approach; to draw near to
- 逼近bī jìnHSK 7
to press on towards; to close in on; to approach; to draw near
- 贴近tiē jìnHSK 7
to press close to; to snuggle close; intimate
- 近日jìn rìHSK 6
(in) the past few days; recently; (within) the next few days
- 近年来jìn nián láiHSK 7
for the past few years
- 近视jìn shìHSK 6
shortsighted; nearsighted; myopia
- 近代jìn dàiHSK 4
the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949)
- 就近jiù jìnHSK 7
nearby; in a close neighborhood
- 急功近利jí gōng jìn lì
seeking instant benefit (idiom); shortsighted vision, looking only for fast return