年 nián
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nián
noun
year
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: time
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '年'; Guoyu '年' n 1; Kroll 2015 '年' 1a, p. 323; Unihan '年'; XHZD '年' 1, p. 534) -
nián
noun
New Year festival
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 年 is synonymous with 年节 in this sense (Guoyu '年' n 3; Unihan '年') -
nián
noun
age
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 年 is synonymous with 年纪 or 岁数 in this sense (Guoyu '年' n 4; Kroll 2015 '年' 1b, p. 323; Unihan '年'; XHZD '年' 3, p. 534) -
nián
noun
life span; life expectancy
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 年 is synonymous with 寿命 in this sense -
nián
noun
an era; a period
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 年 is synonymous with 年代 in this sense (Guoyu '年' n 5) -
nián
noun
a date
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 年 is synonymous with 日期 in this sense -
nián
noun
time; years
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 年 is synonymous with 岁月 in this sense (Guoyu '年' n 6) -
nián
noun
harvest
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '年' n 2; Kroll 2015 '年' 1, p. 323; XHZD '年' 4, p. 534) -
nián
adjective
annual; every year
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
Notes: 年 is synonymous with 每年 in this sense (Guoyu '年' adj 1; XHZD '年' 2, p. 534)
Contained in
- 虎年 Year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010)
- 一九八二年 1982
- 本命年 year of one's birth sign
- 一九六三年 1963
- 年庚 date and time of a person's birth; age
- 老年性痴呆症(老年性痴獃症) senile dementia
- 连年(連年) successive years
- 一九七二年 1972
- 放射性碳测年(放射性碳測年) radiocarbon dating
- 终年积雪(終年積雪) permanent snow cover
- 成年 to grow to adulthood; to be fully grown ; the whole year
- 享年 to live to the (ripe) age of
- 年轻化(年輕化) to make more youthful; to promote younger staff
- 平年 common year
- 纪年(紀年) an era; a dynasty ; annals ; to write a chronicle
- 一年半载(一年半載) about a year
- 终年(終年) entire year
- 荒年 a year of disasters
- 新年 New Year
- 年货(年貨) merchandise sold for Chinese New Year
- 青少年 an adolescent; a youth; a teenager
- 贺年卡(賀年卡) New Year greeting card
- 昔年 former years; previous years
- 舜日尧年(舜日堯年) sage Emperors Shun and Yao rule every day; all for the best in the best of all possible worlds
- 一九九一年 1991
- 华年(華年) young
- 一九三七年 1937
- 一九五一年 1951
- 急景凋年 for a year to quickly pass
- 年夜 lunar New Year's Eve
- 一九一一年 1911
- 明年 next year
- 年逾古稀 over seventy years old
- 隔年皇历(隔年皇曆) almanac from years back; obsolete practice; old-fashioned principle
- 近年 recent years
- 一九〇三年 1903
- 一九八九年 1989
- 年代学(年代學) chronology (the science of determining the dates of past events)
- 一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳(一年被蛇咬十年怕井繩) bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years; once bitten twice shy
- 一九二六年 1926
- 一九五四年 1954
- 一九二五年 1925
- 陈年酱油(陳年醬油) dark soy sauce
- 一九六四年 1964
- 旬年 full year; ten years
- 年幼 young
- 未成年人 minor (i.e. person under 18)
- 一九六七年 1967
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一百〇一 表第二 諸王世表二 Volume 101 Tables 2: Princes 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 837
- 卷一百〇二 表第三 諸王世表三 Volume 102 Tables 3: Princes 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 830
- 卷三十九 志第十九: 地理二 Volume 39 Treatises 19: Geography 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 809
- 卷一百 表第一 諸王世表一 Volume 100 Tables 1: Princes 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 789
- 魏紀 Records of the Wei Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年 — count: 708
- 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 668
- 卷一百〇六 表第七 功臣世表二 Volume 106 Tables 7: Ministers with Outstanding Service 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 663
- 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 630
- 卷三十八 志第十八: 地理一 Volume 38 Treatises 18: Geography 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 616
- 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 605
Collocations
- 年春 (年春) 二年春 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 580
- 三年 (三年) 刺不能三年也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧檜‧素冠 Lessons from the states - Odes of Gui - Su Guan — count: 186
- 二年 (二年) 既克商二年 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 金縢 Zhou Shu - Metal-bound Coffer — count: 145
- 五年 (五年) 七十有五年 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 無逸 Zhou Shu - Against Luxurious Ease — count: 132
- 四年 (四年) 隱公四年 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 125
- 六年 (六年) 六年 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 無逸 Zhou Shu - Against Luxurious Ease — count: 123
- 七年 (七年) 惟七年 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洛誥 Zhou Shu - Announcement concerning Luo — count: 120
- 八年 (八年) 八年 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 無逸 Zhou Shu - Against Luxurious Ease — count: 118
- 九年 (九年) 惟九年 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 武成 Zhou Shu - Successful Completion of the War — count: 106
- 一年 (一年) 十有一年 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 63