鄰
Symbols Relationships
neighbor
ㄌㄧㄣˊ lín
Two versions of the same picture, and both are free with no account and no watermark. The first has no background at all, which is the one to send your artist — but a phone or computer photo viewer set to dark will show black strokes on dark grey and it can look like nothing downloaded. If that happens, use the second one: identical characters on a plain white background. Either way you get the characters on their own — the square and the faint guide lines you see above are not in the file. Each character is 1000px, so a two-character download is 2000×1000, and the script and layout are the ones you picked.
Script
Characters
Same in both
Layout
Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
The person who lives next to you. Chinese treats this as a real relationship, not just a fact of geography.
Before you commit
Choose with care鄰 works mainly as an adjective meaning adjacent. Alone it can read as next to rather than the neighbour, so 鄰居 is clearer for the person.
At small sizesFifteen strokes, weighted heavily to the left with a narrow right ear. Needs size or the left side blocks up.
Cultural note遠親不如近鄰, a distant relative is worth less than a near neighbour, is a phrase in common use. Neighbourliness is treated as a practical obligation.
Meaning
Neighbour; adjacent, next to.
The standard character, used of people and of countries alike.
Other characters for “neighbor”
What to do next
Pick the script and layout you want above, download the PNG, and send that file to your artist. Ask them to work from the file rather than redrawing the character freehand — that is where strokes go missing.
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