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 自爱 自愛 zì ài self-respect / self-love / self-regard / regard for oneself / to cherish one's good name / to take good care of one's health 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) 真才实学 真才實學 zhēn cái shí xué solid learning / real ability and learning / genuine talent 道山学海 道山學海 dào shān xué hǎi mountain of Dao, sea of learning (idiom) / learning is as high as the mountains, as wide as the seas / ars longa, vita brevis 求学无坦途 求學無坦途 qiú xué wú tǎn tú The path of learning can never be smooth. / There is no royal road to learning. (idiom) 经合组织教学国际调查 經合組織教學國際調查 OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey / Teaching and Learning International Survey 教学国际调查 教學國際調查 OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey / Teaching and Learning International Survey 自学材料 自學材料 self-learning package 学习年 xué xí nián The Learning Year 国际人权学习年 國際人權學習年 guó jì rén quán xué xí nián International Year of Human Rights Learning 自律 zì lǜ self-discipline / self-regulation / autonomy (ethics) / autonomic (physiology) syn 自尊 zì zūn self-respect / self-esteem / ego / pride 自立 zì lì independent / self-reliant / self-sustaining / to stand on one's own feet / to support oneself syn 自尊心 zì zūn xīn self-respect / self-esteem / ego 自备 自備 zì bèi to provide one's own... / own / self-provided / self-contained 自保 zì bǎo to defend oneself / self-defense / self-preservation 自检 自檢 zì jiǎn to act with self-restraint / to examine oneself / to perform a self-test 自省 zì xǐng to examine oneself / to reflect on one's shortcomings / introspection / self-awareness / self-criticism syn 自恃 zì shì self-esteem / self-reliance / overconfident / conceited syn 自封 zì fēng to proclaim oneself (sth) / to give oneself the title of / self-appointed / self-styled / to limit oneself to / to isolate oneself syn 故我 gù wǒ one's old self / one's original self / what one has always been 舍己 捨己 shě jǐ selfless / self-sacrifice (to help others) / self-renunciation / altruism 自我陶醉 zì wǒ táo zuì self-satisfied / self-imbued / narcissistic syn 自我实现 自我實現 zì wǒ shí xiàn self-actualization (psychology) / self-realization 联合自强 聯合自強 lián hé zì qiáng to combine together for self-improvement / joint movement for self-strengthening 单独自卫 individual self-defence / self-defence 自决运动 zì jué yùn dòng Movement for Self-Determination / Self-Determination Movement 自毁装置 自毀裝置 zì huǐ zhuāng zhì self-destructing mechanism / self-destruction mechanism 自锻破片 自鍛破片 self-forming fragment / self-forging fragment 自行失效 self-neutralization / self-deactivation 自我维持标准 自我維持標準 self-sustainment standards / performance standards for self-sustainment 自我维持性能标准 自我維持性能標準 self-sustainment standards / performance standards for self-sustainment 自动装填的武器 自動裝填的武器 self-loading weapon / self-loader 自我维持偿还率 自我維持償還率 self-sustainment reimbursement rate / self-sustainment rate 自我维持安排 自我維持安排 self-sustainment arrangement / self-sustainment contract 自我维持安排合同 自我維持安排合同 self-sustainment arrangement / self-sustainment contract 防卫过当 防衛過當 fáng wèi guò dàng excessive self-defense (self-defense with excessive force) 自持 zì chí to control onself / to exercise self-restraint / self-sustaining syn 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 