年
秊Meanings
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- 1.grain
- 2.harvest (old)
- 3.variant of 年[nián]
- 1.surname Nian
- 1.year
- 2.CL:个[gè]
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Wiktionary
- 1.year (in generic contexts)
- 2.harvest
- 3.annual
- 4.age
- 5.period of life
- 6.period (in history)
- 7.Chinese New Year
- 8.things for the Chinese New Year
- 9.Classifier for years.
- 10.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *niːŋ): semantic 禾 (“wheat; grain”) + phonetic 人 (OC *njin). Originally meaning "harvest", it later came to mean "year". In the oracle bone script and early bronze inscriptions, it was originally written like 秂. In bronze inscriptions after the Western Zhou period, a stroke was often added to 人 to give 千 (OC *sn̥ʰiːn), which still acted as a phonetic component, thus getting (秊). The current form is inherited from the clerical script, where libian (隸變) has occurred. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni(ŋ~k) (“year”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我還年輕。
I'm young.
我還年輕。
I'm still young.
她比他年輕。
She's younger than him.
他們那麼年輕。
They were so young.
多少年过去了。
Years passed.
你仍然很年輕。
You're still young.
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Derived terms
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