年头 年頭 nián tóu start of the year / whole year / a particular year / period / days / epoch / a year's harvest syn 同比 tóng bǐ (statistics) compared with the same period of the previous year / year on year / year over year 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 丰年 豐年 fēng nián prosperous year / year with bumper harvest syn 恶岁 惡歲 è suì lean year / year of bad harvest 收获 收穫 shōu huò to harvest / to reap / to gain / crop / harvest / profit / gain / bonus / reward syn 五谷丰登 五穀豐登 wǔ gǔ fēng dēng abundant harvest of all food crops / bumper grain harvest 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) 稔 rěn (literary) ripe grain / ripe / harvest / year / (literary) very familiar with / well acquainted with syn 挂镰 掛鐮 guà lián to complete the year's harvest 颗粒无收 顆粒無收 kē lì wú shōu not a single grain was reaped (as in a bad harvest 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 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 辛未 xīn wèi eight year H8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1991 or 2051 己卯 jǐ mǎo sixteenth year F4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1999 or 2059 辛丑 xīn chǒu thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021 / cf 辛丑條約|辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising 壬戌 rén xū fifty-ninth year I11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1982 or 2042 癸亥 guǐ hài sixtieth year J12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1983 or 2043 癸酉 guǐ yǒu tenth year J10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1993 or 2053 戊午 wù wǔ fifty-fifth year E7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1978 or 2038 丁亥 dīng hài twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067 辛巳 xīn sì eighteenth year H6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2001 or 2061 己巳 jǐ sì sixth year F6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1989 or 2049 乙亥 yǐ hài twelfth year B12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1995 or 2055 甲辰 jiǎ chén 41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024 丙辰 bǐng chén fifty-third year C5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1976 or 2036 庚寅 gēng yín twenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070 乙丑 yǐ chǒu second year B2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1985 or 2045 乙卯 yǐ mǎo fifty-second year B4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1975 or 2035 丙午 bǐng wǔ forty-third year C7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1966 or 2026 庚戌 gēng xū forty-seventh year G11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1970 or 2030 己未 jǐ wèi fifty-sixth year F8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1979 or 2039 戊子 wù zǐ twenty-fifth year E1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2008 or 2068 丁巳 dīng sì fifty-fourth year D6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1977 or 2037 癸丑 guǐ chǒu fiftieth year J2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1973 or 2033 乙未 yǐ wèi thirty-second year B8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1955 or 2015 壬辰 rén chén twenty-ninth year I5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2012 or 2072 壬子 rén zǐ forty-ninth year I1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1972 or 2032 丙申 bǐng shēn thirty-third year C9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1956 or 2016 戊申 wù shēn forty-fifth year E9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1968 or 2028 己丑 jǐ chǒu twenty-sixth year F2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2009 or 2069 乙巳 yǐ sì forty-second year B6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1965 or 2025 辛卯 xīn mǎo twenty-eighth year H4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2011 or 2071 己酉 jǐ yǒu forty-sixth year F10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1969 or 2029 