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同比 tóng bǐ (statistics) compared with the same period of the previous year / year on year / year over year syn
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
捧哏 pěng gén straight man (supporting role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声[dui4kou3 xiang4sheng1]) / (of a straight man) to react with exasperation to the silliness of the funny man 逗哏[dou4gen2]
边检 邊檢 biān jiǎn border inspection / immigration inspection
初始视察 chū shǐ shì chá initial inspection / baseline inspection
弹道导弹视察队 ballistic missiles inspection team / missiles inspection team
核视察队 hé shì chá duì Nuclear Inspection Team / Inspection Team
临时视察 臨時視察 lín shí shì chá unannounced inspection / unscheduled inspection
突然视察 突然視察 tū rán shì chá unannounced inspection / unscheduled inspection
行动准备状态的检查 行動準備狀態的檢查 operational inspection / operational readiness inspection
航空视察队 航空視察隊 Air Inspection Team / Aerial Inspection Team
视察期间 視察期間 inspection period / period of inspection
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)
老者 lǎo zhě old man / elderly man syn
老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn
老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) syn
大丈夫 dà zhàng fu a manly man / a man of character syn
大块头 大塊頭 dà kuài tóu heavy man / fat man / lunkhead / lummox / lug syn
原人 yuán rén prehistoric man / primitive man syn
对口相声 對口相聲 duì kǒu xiàng shēng comic crosstalk / formalized comic dialogue between two stand-up comics: funny man 逗哏[dou4 gen2] and straight man 捧哏[peng3 gen2]
为仁不富 為仁不富 wéi rén bù fù the rich man cannot be benevolent (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).
为富不仁 為富不仁 wéi fù bù rén the benevolent man cannot be rich (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24). syn
无毒不丈夫 無毒不丈夫 wú dú bù zhàng fu no poison, no great man (idiom) / A great man has to be ruthless.
一人得道,鸡犬升天 一人得道,雞犬升天 yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
欧吉桑 歐吉桑 ōu jí sāng older man / man of mature years (Japanese loanword)
为富不仁,为仁不富 為富不仁,為仁不富 wéi fù bù rén , wéi rén bù fù the benevolent man cannot be rich and vice versa (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).
男人膝下有黄金 男人膝下有黃金 nán rén xī xià yǒu huáng jīn lit. the man has gold under his knees / fig. a man who does not easily kneel in front of others (owing to pride or moral integrity)
谋事在人,成事在天 謀事在人,成事在天 móu shì zài rén , chéng shì zài tiān planning is with man, accomplishing with heaven (idiom) / Man proposes but God disposes.
探雷员 探雷員 detector man / mine-detector man
授人以鱼不如授人以渔 授人以魚不如授人以漁 shòu rén yǐ yú bù rú shòu rén yǐ yú give a man a fish and you feed him for a day / teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime / knowledge is the best charity
授之以鱼不如授之以渔 授之以魚不如授之以漁 shòu zhī yǐ yú bù rú shòu zhī yǐ yú give a man a fish and you feed him for a day / teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom)
萝卜白菜,各有所爱 蘿蔔白菜,各有所愛 luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom) / to each his own
孤男寡女 gū nán guǎ nǚ a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
同妻 tóng qī (neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
甲之蜜糖,乙之砒霜 jiǎ zhī mì táng , yǐ zhī pī shuāng one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
大男人 dà nán rén very masculine guy / a real man / (used ironically) a grown man
异男 異男 yì nán (Tw) heterosexual man / straight man
萝卜白菜,各有所爱 蘿蔔白菜,各有所愛 luó bo - bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài (saying) one man's meat is another man's poison / to each his own
靴子落地 xuē zi luò dì lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
人工年 man-year
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
甲寅 jiǎ yín 51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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