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běnmìngnián year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[dì zhī]

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        běn, root/stem/origin/source/this/the current/original/inherent/originally/classifier...
        gēnběn, fundamental/basic/root/simply/absolutely (not)/(not) at all/CL:個|个[gè]
        běnlái, [本來], original/originally/at first/it goes without saying/of course
        Rìběn, Japan
        jīběn, basic/fundamental/main/elementary
        jùběn, [劇本], script for play, opera, movie etc/screenplay/scenario
        běndì, local/this locality
        běnrén, the person himself/I (humble form used in speeches)/oneself/myself/in person/per...
        běnshēn, itself/in itself/per se
        yàngběn, [樣本], sample/specimen
        yuánběn, originally/original
        běnshì/běnshi, source material/original story, ability/skill
        jīběnshang, basically/on the whole
        bǐjìběn, [筆記本], notebook (stationery)/CL:本[běn]/notebook (computing)
        bǎnběn, version/edition/release
        
        běnnéng, instinct
        běnzhì, [本質], essence/nature/innate character/intrinsic quality
        běnxìng, natural instincts/nature/inherent quality
        
        
        
        chéngběn, (manufacturing, production etc) costs
        běnyì, original idea/real intention/etymon
        Běnjiémíng, [本傑明], Benjamin (person name)
        fùběn, copy/duplicate/transcript/(in online games) instance
        běnsè/běnshǎi, inherent qualities/natural qualities/distinctive character/true qualities, natur...
        
        běntǔ, one's native country/native/local/metropolitan territory
        zhàngběn, [賬本], account book
        
        běnzi, book/notebook/edition/CL:本[běn]
        běnlǐng, [本領], skill/ability/capability/CL:項|项[xiàng],個|个[gè]
        běnshì, this city/our city
        shūběn, [書本], book/CL:本[běn]
        zīběn, [資本], capital (economics)
        biāoběn, [標本], specimen/sample/the root cause and symptoms of a disease
        
        běnyuè, this month/the current month
        
        jìshìběn, [記事本], notebook/paper notepad/laptop computer
        zīběnzhǔyì, [資本主義], capitalism
        běnbù, headquarters/head office
        dàběnyíng, [大本營], headquarters/base camp
        Mòěrběn, [墨爾本], Melbourne, Australia
        kèběn, [課本], textbook/CL:本[běn]
        Běnzhōu, Honshū, the main island of Japan
        běnguó, [本國], one's own country
        běnfèn, (to play) one's part/one's role/one's duty/(to stay within) one's bounds/dutiful...
        běnqián, [本錢], capital/(fig.) asset/advantage/the means (to do sth)
        wénběn, version/text
        běnháng, one's line/one's own profession
        rìjìběn, [日記本], diary (book)
        Běntián, Honda (Japanese name)
        zīběnjiā, [資本家], capitalist
        yīběnzhèngjīng, [一本正經], in deadly earnest/deadpan
        Shānběn, Yamamoto (Japanese surname)
        
        
        Gēběnhāgēn, Copenhagen or København, capital of Denmark
        
        běnláimiànmù, [本來面目], true colors/true features
        
        jiǎoběn, [腳本], script
        Lǐsīběn, Lisbon, capital of Portugal
        běnjiè, [本屆], current/this year
        
        
        fùběn, [複本], copy
        lǎoběn, capital/assets/savings/nest egg/(fig.) reputation/laurels (to rest upon)/old edi...
        
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        jīběngōng, basic skills/fundamentals
        
        
        
        chāoběn, handwritten copy
·         Běn·Lādēng, Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
        běnkē, undergraduate course/undergraduate (attributive)
        yuányuánběnběn, from beginning to end/in its entirety/in accord with fact/literal
        běnzhe, [本著], based on.../in conformance with../taking as one's main principle
        xuèběn, hard-earned capital
        
        běnzhí, [本職], one's job
        
        
        
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        běntǐ, [本體], main part/torso/the thing in itself/noumenon (object of purely intellectual perc...
        
        
        zhàoběnxuānkē, a wooden word-by-word reading
        Sōngběn, Matsumoto (Japanese surname and place name)
        kuīběn, [虧本], to make a loss
        Rìběnrén, Japanese person or people
        
        BěnLādēng, (Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
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        běnqī, the current period/this term (usually in finance)
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        lánběn, [藍本], blueprint/source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based
        běnjiā, a member of the same clan/a distant relative with the same family name
        
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        zhìběn, to take radical measures/to get to the root (of a problem etc)
        cǎoběn, grass/herb
        
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        péiběn, [賠本], loss/to sustain losses
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        Gōngběn, [宮本], Miyamoto (Japanese surname)
        běnlì, principal and interest/capital and profit
        
        
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        běnxiàng, original form
        
        běnbào, [本報], this newspaper
        běnběn, notebook computer (diminutive)/laptop
        xuèběnwúguī, [血本無歸], to lose everything one invested (idiom)/to lose one's shirt
        běnyuán, origin/source
        
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        Běnnèitè, [本內特], Bennett (surname)
        
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        gòuběn, [夠本], to break even/to get one's money's worth
        Hèběn, Hepburn (name)
        fànběn, [範本], model (example worthy of being imitated)/template
        yìběn, [譯本], translation (translated version of a text)
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        Jíběnsī, Gibbons (name)
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        dúběn, [讀本], reader/an instructional book
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        RìběnHǎi, Sea of Japan
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        Qiáoběn, [橋本], Hashimoto (Japanese surname and place name)
        Téngběn, Fujimoto (Japanese surname)
        
        
        
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        shǒuchāoběn, manuscript copy of a book (before the printing press)
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        zhèngběn, original (of a document)/reserved copy (of a library book)
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        cǎoběnzhíwù, herbaceous plant
        
        
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        jīběnfǎ, basic law (constitutional document)
        běnkēshēng, undergraduate student
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        běnyì, [本義], original meaning/literal sense
        
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        gǔběn, capital stock/investment
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        běntǔhuà, to localize/localization
        
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        hùkǒuběn, [戶口本], household register/household registration booklet/residence certificate
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        Zīběnlùn, [資本論], Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·馬克思|卡尔·马克思[Kǎ ěr · Mǎ kè sī]
        
        
        běnmíng, original name/real name/personal name
        běnzì, original form of a Chinese character
        
        
        
        
        
        
        běntǐlùn, [本體論], ontology
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        jīběndiǎn, [基本點], basis point (finance), abbr. to 基點|基点[jī diǎn]
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        běnběnzhǔyì, [本本主義], book worship/bookishness
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        yìnběn, printed book/copy
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        běnxī, principal and interest (on a loan)
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        duìběn, [對本], (a return) equal to the capital/100 percent profit
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        běnyīng, [本應], should have/ought to have
        
        
        
        běnxiāng, [本鄉], home village/one's native place
        běnwèi, standard/one's own department or unit
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        běntí, [本題], the subject under discussion/the point at issue
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        jiàoběn, textbook
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        liànxíběn, [練習本], exercise book/workbook/CL:本[běn]
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        shēngmìng, life (as the characteristic of living beings)/living being/creature/CL:個|个[gè],條...
        mìng, life/fate/order or command/to assign a name, title etc
        mìnglìng, order/command/CL:道[dào],個|个[gè]
        jiùmìng, to save sb's life/(interj.) Help!/Save me!
        mìngyùn, [命運], fate/destiny/CL:個|个[gè]
        zhìmìng, fatal/mortal/deadly/to sacrifice one's life
        xìngmìng, life
使         shǐmìng, mission/long-term task to which one devotes oneself/a calling
        dàimìng, to be on call/to be on standby
        pīnmìng, to do one's utmost/with all one's might/at all costs/(to work or fight) as if on...
        zūnmìng, to follow your orders/to do as you bid
        mìngmíng, to give a name to/to dub/to christen/to designate/named after/naming
        gémìng, revolution/revolutionary (politics)/CL:次[cì]
        mìngzhòng, to hit (a target)
        yàomìng, to cause sb's death/very/extremely/frightening/annoying
        sàngmìng, [喪命], to lose one's life
        rènmìng, to appoint/(job) appointment/CL:紙|纸[zhǐ]
        sòngmìng, to lose one's life/to get killed
        huómìng, life/to survive/to save a life/to scrape a living
        rénmìng, human life/CL:條|条[tiáo]
        méimìng, [沒命], to lose one's life/to die/recklessly/desperately
        táomìng, to escape/to flee/to run for one's life
        mìngàn, homicide case/murder case
        màimìng, [賣命], to throw one's life in for/to haplessly give one's life for/to sacrifice oneself...
        tīngmìng, [聽命], to obey an order/to take orders/to accept a state of affairs
        fèngmìng, to receive orders/to follow orders/to act under orders
        suànmìng, fortune-telling/to tell fortune
        
        wéitāmìng, [維他命], vitamin (loanword)
寿         shòumìng, [壽命], life span/life expectancy/lifetime (of a machine)
        shēngmìnglì, vitality
        shòumìng, ordained or appointed to a post/to benefit from counsel
        bìmìng, [斃命], to meet violent death/to get killed
        zìmìngbùfán, to think too much of oneself/self-important/arrogant
        zhìmìngshāng, [致命傷], mortal wound/(fig.) fatal weakness/Achilles' heel
        tīngtiānyóumìng, [聽天由命], to submit to the will of heaven/to resign oneself to fate/to trust to luck
        rènmìng, [認命], to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate/to be resigned to sth
        
        Tiānmìng, Mandate of Heaven/destiny/fate/one's life span
        wángmìng, to flee/to go into exile (from prison)
        sǐyúfēimìng, [死於非命], violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster/an unnatural death
        xiāngyīwéimìng, [相依為命], mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival/inter...
        chūrénmìng, fatal/resulting in sb's death
        gémìngxìng, revolutionary
        
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        chángmìng, [償命], to pay with one's life
        sǐmìng, doom/death/desperately
        duǎnmìng, to die young/short-lived
        wángmìngzhītú, runaway (idiom); desperate criminal/fugitive
        mìngtí, [命題], proposition (logic, math.)/to assign an essay topic
        
        rénmìngguāntiān, [人命關天], human life is beyond value (idiom)
        shěmìng, [捨命], to risk one's life
        zìmìng, to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
        ráomìng, [饒命], to spare sb's life
        kàngmìng, against orders/to disobey/to refuse to accept orders
        
        mìngzhònglǜ, hit rate/scoring rate
线         shēngmìngxiàn, [生命線], lifeline
        mìngmài, [命脈], lifeline
        mìnggēn, lifeblood/the thing that one cherishes most in life/(coll.) family jewels (male ...
        píyúbēnmìng, [疲於奔命], (idiom) terribly busy/up to one's ears in work
        kǔmìng, hard lot/bitter fate/unfortunate
        
        pànmìng, see 拼命[pīn mìng]
        
        mìngkǔ, to be born under an ill star
        
        hěnmìng, exerting all one's strength
        yǔnmìng, [殞命], to die/to perish
        cǎojiānrénmìng, to have disregard for human life (idiom)
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        cuīmìng, to press sb to death/fig. to pressurize sb continually
        shòumìng, to give orders
        gémìngjiā, a revolutionary
        
        
        
        mìngxiàng, horoscope
        móucáihàimìng, [謀財害命], to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
        wánrmìng, [玩兒命], to gamble with life/to take reckless risks
        ānshēnlìmìng, settle down and get on with one's pursuit
        bēnmìng, to rush about on errands/to be kept on the run
        WénhuàDàgémìng, Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
        juémìngshū, [絕命書], suicide note
宿         sùmìnglùn, [宿命論], fatalism/fatalistic
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        fùmìng, [復命], to report on completion of a mission/debriefing
        
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        ěrtímiànmìng, to give sincere advice (idiom)/to exhort earnestly
        bómìng, to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women)/to be born unlucky
        
        
        mínzhǔgémìng, democratic revolution/bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude t...

        Nián/nián, [秊], surname Nian, year/CL:個|个[gè], grain/harvest (old)/variant of 年[nián]
        niánqīng, [年輕], young
        qùnián, last year
        jīnnián, this year
        niándài, a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)/age/era/period/CL:個|个[gè]
        niánqīngrén, [年輕人], young people/youngster
        niánjí, [年級], grade/year (in school, college etc)/CL:個|个[gè]
        niánjì, [年紀], age/CL:把[bǎ],個|个[gè]
        niánlíng, [年齡], (a person's) age/CL:把[bǎ],個|个[gè]
        měinián, every year/each year/yearly
        míngnián, next year
        chéngniánrén, adult person
        zhōunián, [週年], anniversary/annual
        xīnnián, New Year/CL:個|个[gè]
        dāngnián/dàngnián, [當年], in those days/then/in those years/during that time, that very same year
        qīngshàonián, adolescent/youth/teenager
        niándù, year (e.g. school year, fiscal year)/annual
        shàonián, early youth/youngster/(literary) youth/young man
        tóngnián, childhood
        qīngnián, youth/youthful years/young person/the young
        
        
        qiānnián, millennium
        niántóu, [年頭], start of the year/whole year/a particular year/period/days/epoch/a year's harves...
        zhōngnián, middle age
        chéngnián, to grow to adulthood/fully grown/the whole year
        wèichéngnián, underage
        niánzhǎng, [年長], senior
        wèichéngniánrén, minor (i.e. person under 18)
        niánjiàn, [年鑑], annual report/yearbook/almanac
        chénnián, [陳年], old/stored for many years
        lǎoniánrén, old people/the elderly
        lǎonián, elderly/old age/autumn of one's years
        jiāniánhuá, [嘉年華], carnival (loanword)
        guāngnián, light-year
        niánfen, particular year/certain year/given year
        niányòu, young/underage
        
        
        bǎinián, hundred years/century/lifetime
        
        gēngniánqī, menopause/andropause
        
        niánfùyīnián, [年復一年], over the years/year after year
        niánlǎo, aged
        niánqīng, youthful
        lǎoniánchīdāizhèng, [老年痴獃症], senile dementia/Alzheimer's disease
        niánshào, young/junior
        
        niánxīn, annual salary
        xuénián, [學年], academic year
        niándǐ, the end of the year/year-end
        wǎnnián, one's later years
        shàoniánfàn, young criminal/juvenile delinquent
        tóngnián, the same year
        niánhuá, [年華], years/time/age
        zǎonián, early years/adolescence
        
        
        niánmài, [年邁], old/aged
        wǎngnián, in former years/in previous years
        yīngniánzǎoshì, to die an untimely death (idiom)/to be cut off in one's prime
        
        niánnián, year after year/yearly/every year/annually
        qiánnián, the year before last
        niánzhōng, [年終], end of the year
        guònián, [過年], to celebrate the Chinese New Year
        yòunián, childhood/infancy
        quánnián, the whole year/all year long
        dùrìrúnián, a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy/time crawls when one is w...
        niánsuì, [年歲], years of age/age
        chángnián, all year round/for years on end/average year
        niányuè, months and year/time/days of one's life
        xiǎoqīngnián, young person/youngster
        niánqīngyǒuwéi, [年輕有為], young and promising
        niánqīnglìzhuàng, [年輕力壯], young and vigorous (idiom)
        niángāo, nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous ric...
        biānniánshǐ, [編年史], annals/chronicle
        
        xiànnián, [現年], (a person's) current age
        xiǎngnián, to live to the (ripe) age of
        láinián, [來年], next year/the coming year
        wànniánqīng, [萬年青], Nippon lily (Rohdea japonica)
        niánqián, before the end of the year/before the new year
        jìnniánlái, [近年來], for the past few years
        qīngniánrén, young person/the young
        
        niánshōurù, annual income
        yíchòuwànnián, [遺臭萬年], to have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy (idiom)
        niánchū, beginning of the year
        hóunián, Year of the Monkey (e.g. 2004)
        shàngnián, last year
        niánhuì, [年會], annual meeting
        niánmò, end of the year
        
        
        
        zhúnián, year after year/with each passing year/over the years
        Wànnián, [萬年], Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi
        yīniándàotóu, [一年到頭], all year round
        
        niánxiàn, age limit/fixed number of years
        
        chángnián, [長年], all the year round
        niánbào, [年報], annual report
        niánjià, annual leave/New Year holidays
        
        yīniánsìjì, all year round
        niánlún, [年輪], annual ring/growth ring
        zhuàngnián, [壯年], lit. robust years/prime of life/summer/able-bodied (fit for military service)/ma...
        xiàbànnián, second half of the year
        
        wǔniánjìhuà, [五年計劃], Five-Year Plan
        
        qīngniántuán, [青年團], youth corps/youth wing of a political party
寿         yánniányìshòu, [延年益壽], to make life longer/to promise longevity/(this product will) extend your life
        bùjiǎndāngnián, [不減當年], (of one's skills, appearance etc) not to have deteriorated a bit/to be as (good,...
        niánjiǔshīxiū, old and in a state of disrepair (idiom)/dilapidated
        tiānnián, natural life span
        duōniánshēng, perennial (of plants)
        zhōngnián, [終年], entire year/throughout the year/age at death
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        liánnián, [連年], successive years/over many years
        bàinián, to pay a New Year call/to wish sb a Happy New Year
        
        chángniánlěiyuè, [長年累月], year in, year out (idiom)/(over) many years
        rùnnián, [閏年], leap year/(lunar calendar) year with a thirteen intercalary month
        
        niánqīnghuà, [年輕化], to make more youthful/to promote younger staff
        
        érlìzhīnián, aged thirty (see 三十而立)
        
        
        
        
        niánjīn, annuity/pension/superannuation
        niánjiān, [年間], in the years of/during those years/period (of dynasty or decade)
        yīniánbànzǎi, [一年半載], about a year
        lìnián, [曆年]/[歷年], calendar year, over the years/bygone years
        ShàoniánGōng, [少年宮], Children's Palace, institution where children can take part in various extracurr...
        
        fēngzhúcánnián, [風燭殘年], one's late days/to have one foot in the grave
        
        
        
        niánzhōngjiǎng, [年終獎], year-end bonus
        chéngniánlěiyuè, year in, year out (idiom)
        liúnián, fleeting time/horoscope for the year
        niánshìyǐgāo, old in years
        niánlì, [年曆], calendar/diary
        
        
        qīngzhuàngnián, [青壯年], the prime of one's life
        
        
        
        jìnnián, recent year(s)
        hòunián, [後年], the year after next
        tùnián, Year of the Rabbit (e.g. 2011)
        jìnián, [紀年], to number the years/calendar era/annals/chronicle
        
        
        
        
        
        
        zhōnglǎonián, middle and old age
        zhōnglǎoniánrén, middle-aged and elderly people
        
        bǎiniánbùyù, only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)
        yuánnián, first year of an emperor's reign
        chuímùzhīnián, old age
        
        
        
        gǒunián, Year of the Dog (e.g. 2006)
        shénián, Year of the Snake (e.g. 2001)
        
        dòukòuniánhuá, [豆蔻年華], a girl's teenage years (idiom); maidenhood/a budding beauty
        mònián, the final years (of a regime)
        
        
        niánbiǎo, timeline/chronology/annals/financial year/year
        yángnián, Year of the Ram (e.g. 2003)
        zhūnián, [豬年], Year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
        shèngnián, the prime of one's life
        
        niánnèi, [年內], during the current year
        niánshì, years of age/age
        niánchǎn, [年產], annual production
        niánxī, annual interest
        hèniánkǎ, [賀年卡], New Year greeting card
        
        
        shàngbànnián, first half (of a year)
        
        niánhuò, [年貨], merchandise sold for Chinese New Year
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        shǔnián, Year of the Rat (e.g. 2008)
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        wàngniánjiāo, friends despite the difference in age
        
        
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        bànnián, half a year
        
        
        niándàixué, [年代學], chronology (the science of determining the dates of past events)
        
        
        
        niánguān, [年關], end of the year
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        hǔnián, Year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010)
        
        niánlǎotǐruò, [年老體弱], old and weak (idiom)
        cáinián, [財年], fiscal year/financial year
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        fēngnián, [豐年], prosperous year/year with bumper harvest
        
        
        
        
        
        
        niánjūn, annual average (rate)
        niánhào, [年號], reign title/era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part...
        
        qùniándǐ, late last year/the end of last year
        
        niánxià, lunar new year
        niánwěi, end of the year
        
        
        
        
        
        mǎnián, [馬年], Year of the Horse (e.g. 2002)
        
        
        jīngniánlěiyuè, [經年累月], for years/over the years
        shàoniánlǎochéng, accomplished though young/lacking youthful vigor
        
        
        dàhòunián, [大後年], three years from now/year after year after next year
        
        
        
        zhèngdāngnián, [正當年], to be in the prime of life
        
        yúnián, [餘年], one's remaining years
        
        niánfùlìqiáng, [年富力強], young and vigorous (idiom)
        
        niúnián, Year of the Ox or Bull (e.g. 2009)
        
        
        
        

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