秊
nián HSK1

year

年 (秊) nián
year measure word
a unit of time equal to twelve months or the duration of the Earth's orbit around the sun

他在北京住了三年。

tā zài Běi​jīng zhù le sān nián.

He lived in Beijing for three years.

age noun
the number of years a person has lived or a specific period in a person's life

他年仅十岁，就能背诵上百首古诗。

tā nián jǐn shí suì, jiù néng bèi​sòng shàng​bǎi shǒu gǔ​shī.

At only ten years old, he could recite over a hundred ancient poems.

harvest noun
the ripening of grain or the annual crop yield; the original meaning associated with the character's form

瑞雪兆丰年。

ruì​xuě zhào fēng​nián.

A timely snow foretells a bumper harvest.

New Year verb
the first day or start of the year, particularly the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival

祝大家过年好！

zhù dà​jiā guò nián hǎo!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Frequency
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
8
Unicode
U+79CA

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)