同比 tóng bǐ (statistics) compared with the same period of the previous year / year on year / year over year syn 极角 極角 jí jiǎo polar angle / argument (angle in polar coordinates) 极轴 極軸 jí zhóu polar axis (x-axis in polar coordinates) 极地轨道卫星 polar orbiting satellite / polar satellite 极地信标实验和极光研究卫星 極地信標實驗和極光研究衛星 Polar Beacon Experiment and Auroral Research Satellite / Polar BEAR 极地涡旋 polar vortex / polar cyclone 极涡 polar vortex / polar cyclone 极地平流层云 極地平流層雲 polar stratospheric cloud / polar ice cloud 极地冰晶云 極地冰晶雲 polar stratospheric cloud / polar ice cloud 年头 年頭 nián tóu start of the year / whole year / a particular year / period / days / epoch / a year's harvest syn 甲子 jiǎ zǐ first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]) / the sixty-year cycle 整年累月 zhěng nián lěi yuè month after month, year after year / year in, year out syn 年度 nián dù year (e.g. school year, fiscal year) / annual syn 年前 nián qián by the end of the year / at the end of the year / shortly before New Year 年份 nián fen particular year / certain year / given year syn 年年 nián nián year after year / yearly / every year / annually syn 逐年 zhú nián year after year / with each passing year / over the years syn 元年 yuán nián first year of an emperor's reign / first year of an era / first year of a significant time period 年中 nián zhōng within the year / in the middle of the year / mid-year 旧年 舊年 jiù nián last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar) syn 大后年 大後年 dà hòu nián three years from now / year after year after next year 岁岁平安 歲歲平安 suì suì píng ān May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting) 躲年 duǒ nián to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve) 年年有馀 年年有餘 nián nián yǒu yú lit. (may you) have abundance year after year / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year) 比年 bǐ nián (literary) every year / year after year / (literary) in recent years / Taiwan pr. [bi4 nian2] 年年有余 年年有餘 nián nián yǒu yú lit. (may you) have abundance year after year / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year) 卒岁 卒歲 zú suì (literary) to get through the year / entire year / throughout the year 小年夜 xiǎo nián yè (coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god) 国际宁静太阳年 國際宁靜太陽年 guó jì níng jìng tài yáng nián International Year of the Quiet Sun / International Quiet Sun year 国际太阳两极考察飞行计划 International Solar Polar Mission 国际极地海洋研究方桉 國際極地海洋研究方案 Programme for International Polar Oceans Research 极点 極點 jí diǎn extreme point / pole / the origin (in polar coordinates) syn 极地 極地 jí dì polar region 北极熊 北極熊 běi jí xióng polar bear syn 白熊 bái xióng polar bear / white bear syn 寒带 寒帶 hán dài polar climate 极坐标 極座標 jí zuò biāo polar coordinates (math.) 极坐标系 極座標系 jí zuò biāo xì system of polar coordinates 极径 極徑 jí jìng modulus (distance from the origin in polar coordinates) 极轨道 極軌道 jí guǐ dào polar orbit 极地冰 極地冰 jí dì bīng polar ice 极地平流层下部 lower polar stratosphere 极地空间平台 Polar Platform 极地实验 極地實驗 Polar Experiment 极地冰原 極地冰原 polar-cap ice 极地冰盖 極地冰蓋 polar-cap ice 极地放大 polar amplification 极地反气旋 極地反氣旋 polar anticyclone 北极区 北极區 běi jí qū northern polar zone 椭球极叁角形 橢球極三角形 ellipsoid polar triangle 极轨卫星发射火箭 極軌衛星發射火箭 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle 极轨月球观测台 極軌月球觀測臺 Polar Orbiting Lunar Observatory 养护北极熊协定 養護北極熊協定 Agreement on Conservation of Polar Bears 极地冰层范围项目 極地冰層範圍項目 Polar Ice Extent Project 极锋急流 極鋒急流 polar front jet stream 极核 極核 jí hé polar nucleus 麦氏贼鸥 麥氏賊鷗 mài shì zéi ōu (bird species of China) South Polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) 摇粒绒 搖粒絨 yáo lì róng (textiles) polar fleece 每年 měi nián every year / each year / yearly syn 年底 nián dǐ the end of the year / year-end syn 全年 quán nián the whole year / all year long 常年 cháng nián all year round / for years on end / average year syn 应届 應屆 yīng jiè this year's / the current year's 初一 chū yī first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school syn 初二 chū èr 2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year 本年度 běn nián dù this year / the current year 贺岁 賀歲 hè suì to extend New Year's greetings / to pay a New Year's visit syn 拜年 bài nián to pay a New Year call / to wish sb a Happy New Year syn 来年 來年 lái nián next year / the coming year syn 去年底 qù nián dǐ late last year / the end of last year 终年 終年 zhōng nián entire year / throughout the year / age at death syn 财年 財年 cái nián fiscal year / financial year 春节联欢晚会 春節聯歡晚會 chūn jié lián huān wǎn huì CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special / abbr. to 春晚[Chun1 Wan3] 乙酉 yǐ yǒu twenty-second year B10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2005 or 2065 经年 經年 jīng nián for years / year after year 丙戌 bǐng xū twenty-third year C11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2006 or 2066 甲午 jiǎ wǔ thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014 戊戌 wù xū thirty-fifth year E11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1958 or 2018 丰年 豐年 fēng nián prosperous year / year with bumper harvest syn 甲申 jiǎ shēn 21st year A9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2004 or 2064 翌年 yì nián the following year / the next year syn 庚子 gēng zǐ 37th year G1 of the 60-year cycle, e.g. 1960 or 2020 辛亥 xīn hài forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031 / cf 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], Xinhai Revolution of 1911 庚辰 gēng chén seventeenth year G5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2000 or 2060 年表 nián biǎo timeline / chronology / annals / financial year / year 丁卯 dīng mǎo fourth year D4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1987 or 2047 壬午 rén wǔ nineteenth year I7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2002 or 2062 甲戌 jiǎ xū eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1994 or 2054 辛酉 xīn yǒu fifty-eighth year H10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1981 or 2041 丙子 bǐng zǐ thirteenth year C1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1996 or 2056 壬申 rén shēn ninth year I9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1992 or 2052 庚午 gēng wǔ seventh year G7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1990 or 2050 癸未 guǐ wèi twentieth year J8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2003 or 2063 戊辰 wù chén fifth year E5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1988 or 2048 庚申 gēng shēn fifty-seventh year G9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1980 or 2040 大年三十 dà nián sān shí last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve 丁丑 dīng chǒu fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057 戊寅 wù yín fifteenth year E3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1998 or 2058 丙寅 bǐng yín third year C3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1986 or 2046 