ěr

be near

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

walk

爾 sound component

  Sound component

ěr

  

you

Evolution

邇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邇 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
邇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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ěr

be near, be close; recently; near; close

Most common words with 邇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

闻名遐迩

to be famous far and wide (idiom)

near

遐迩

near and far

遐迩闻名

famous everywhere

室迩人遐

to long for sb far away

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n[ə][r]ʔ

nyeX

ěr

near


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4328th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+9087

Shuowen

“邇,近也。从辵,爾聲。迩,古文邇。”


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