Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- nián
- Nián
English
- year
- surname Nian
- year
- a surname, usually transliterated as "Nin"
- year
- added before the date of month to refer to dates of the lunar calendar from the last ten days of the last month to the coming Lantern Festival (元宵 jyun4 siu1) i.e. the 15th day of the first month (e.g. 年廿八 nin4 jaa6 baat3 is the 28th day of the last month and 年初一 nin4 co1 jat1 is the 1st day of the first month of the new year)
- new-years
- CL:個|个[ge4]
- person's age
粵語
- 姓
- 時間單位,等於地球圍住太陽公轉一圈嘅時間,大約係365.24地球日;而西曆入面一年有365(平年)或者366日(閏年)
- 農曆臘月(十二月)下旬至新年元宵(正月十五),用嚟表示日子嘅方法;例如年廿八就係農曆十二月廿八,年初一就係農曆新年正月初一
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Variants
Words containing 年
- 開年hoi1 nin4
beginning of a year
- 成年sing4 nin4
to grow to adulthood
- 新年san1 nin4
New Year
- 年畫nin4 waa2
New Year (Spring Festival) picture
- 年代nin4 doi6
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)
- 年中nin4 zung1
within the year
- 中年zung1 nin4
middle age
- 上年soeng6 nin2
last year
- 來年loi4 nin4
next year
- 今年gam1 nin4
this year
- 後年hau6 nin2
the year after next
- 青年cing1 nin4
youth
- 去年heoi3 nin4
last year
- 年輕nin4 hing1
young
- 下年haa6 nin2
next year
- 當年dong1 nin4
in those days; back then; in those years
- 年糕nin4 gou1
nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour
- 年度nin4 dou6
year (e.g. school year, fiscal year)
- 少年siu3 nin4
early youth
- 出年ceot1 nin2
(noun
- 前年cin4 nin2
the year before last
- 年號nin4 hou6
reign title
- 年底nin4 dai2
the end of the year
- 長年coeng4 nin4
all the year round