邻lín
neighbor; neighborhood. 7 strokes, radical 阝, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin línStrokes 7Radical 阝Band HSK 5Words 1
How to write 邻
Strokes 1–5 write 令, then strokes 6–7 write 阝.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 邻 · the stroke-order rules
What 邻 is made of
令 (lìng, command) and 阝 (yì, place).
阝 carries the meaning — town — and 令 carries the sound.
Words that use 邻
| 邻居 | neighbor 指住处相邻的人家 热心邻居互相送上暖茶。Warm-hearted neighbors brought each other hot tea. Lesson 453, 睦邻情深 · 崇礼敦厚与通济两岸 · Civic Courtesy, Diligence & Cross-River Harmony |
Characters that share the sound part 令
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 阝
All 29 of them, and what the radical means, on the 阝 radical page.