年

year

No. 21 most used

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

It began as a person carrying grain: one harvest, one year.

Words

• 年轻

  nián qīng

  young
• 多年

  duō nián

  many years; for many years; longstanding
• 年轻人

  nián qīng rén

  young people; youngster
• 今年

  jīn nián

  this year
• 去年

  qù nián

  last year
• 年前

  nián qián

  by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year

Sentences

• 你这些年在做什么？

  nǐ zhè xiē nián zài zuò shén me

  What have you been doing these last few years?
• 意外发生在两年前。

  yì wài fā shēng zài liǎng nián qián

  The accident happened two years ago.
• 我们已是成年人了。

  wǒ men yǐ shì chéng nián rén le

  We're adults.
• 两年前，我去了中国。

  liǎng nián qián wǒ qù le zhōng guó

  Two years ago I went to China.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.