Pinyin: nián

year

Example sentence

他今年二十岁。

Tā jīnnián èrshí suì.

He is twenty this year.

What 年 means

(nián) is a Chinese word meaning “year”. It belongs to the Time topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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