DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

街坊四鄰

简街坊四邻 · 繁街坊四鄰

Mandarin · pinyin jiē fang sì lín

neighbors
the whole neighborhood

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

街: jiē · street, road, thoroughfare
坊: fāng · neighborhood, urban subdivision; (J) priest's residence; (Buddhist) priest; boy
四: sì · four
鄰: Look up this written character
邻: lín · neighbor; neighborhood

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–5–4–2 · jie1 fang5 si4 lin2

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

街坊四鄰 · find source passages ↗ · 街坊四邻 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gaai1 fong1 sei3 leon4

Cantonese word readings for 街坊四鄰. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack