年

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year; CL:個|个[ge4]

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A man 干 carrying grain, representing the annual harvest

Components 干 ? unknown part

year · Heisig RSH #871

stick horse — as a component also called: monocle

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
新年	xīn nián	New Year; CL:個\|个[ge4]
明年	míng nián	next year
半年	bàn nián	half a year
去年	qù nián	last year
今年	jīn nián	this year
一年生	yī nián shēng	(botany) (of a plant) annual
年头儿	nián tóu r	erhua variant of 年頭\|年头[nian2 tou2]
有年头	yǒu nián tou	for donkey's years; for ages
中老年人	zhōng lǎo nián rén	middle-aged and elderly people
有生之年	yǒu shēng zhī nián	(idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years
山道年	shān dào nián	santonin (loanword)
国民年金	Guó mín Nián jīn	(Tw) National Pension, a social security scheme in Taiwan
中年	zhōng nián	middle age
年中	nián zhōng	within the year; in the middle of the year; mid-year
年头	nián tóu	start of the year; whole year; a particular year; period; days; epoch; a year's harvest
一年多	yī nián duō	more than a year
学年	xué nián	academic year
成年人	chéng nián rén	adult person
多年生	duō nián shēng	(botany) (of a plant) perennial
流年不利	liú nián bù lì	the year's horoscope augurs ill (idiom); an unlucky year