(nián) - year, annual in Mandarin

nián

Traditional: 年

HSK 1

#224 of 2,700Core 1000

Translation

year, annual

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Word origin

年 (nián) 'year' originally depicted a person bent under a ripe head of grain (禾), representing the yearly harvest, from which the sense of a full cycle of seasons developed.

Origin: ideograph
Root: 禾 (grain) carried by a person (harvest cycle)

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Examples

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This year is a good year.

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I am twenty years old this year.

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See you next year.

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Last year I went to Japan.

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I have lived here for three years.

年 (nián) means year, annual. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 年.

年轻nián qīngyoung 多年duō niánmany years 年轻人nián qīng rényoung people, youngster, the young 今年jīn niánthis year 去年qù niánlast year

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This word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 3: 年, 是不是, 以为 and 7 more words.