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Neighbor in Chinese

neighbor · HSK 3

邻居 lín jū

  1. 邻 lín neighbor
  2. 居 jū to live

Counted with 个: 一个邻居 yí gè línjū

我的邻居是一位老师。 My neighbor is a teacher.

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How do you say neighbor in Chinese?

Neighbor in Chinese is 邻居 (lín jū).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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