年
nián HSK1

year

年 nián
year noun
a year or the duration of a year; also used to describe annual or yearly occurrences

六年能发生很多事情。

liù nián néng fā​shēng hěn​duō shì​qing.

A lot can happen in six years.

age noun
a person's age or a specific stage in a person's life

他那年该是六十二岁。

tā nà nián gāi shì liù shí èr suì.

He would have been sixty-two that year.

period noun
a period of time, an era, or a decade

这些年你还好吗？

zhè​xiē nián nǐ hái​hǎo ma?

How have you been all these years?

New Year noun
the New Year festival or relating to the New Year holiday
harvest
(bound form) the annual harvest or crop yield
Nian
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
45th most common 3110.5 per million
Movie subtitles
154th most common 1170.4 per million appears in 97% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
913.6 per million appears in 89% of films
Written text
3177.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5E74

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)