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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 年复一年

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
年复一年 nián fù yī nián - (idiom) over the years; year after year

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 17,364 31,937 20,366

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
nián- surname Nian
nián- year
- CL:個|个[ge4]
nián- grain
- harvest (old)
- variant of 年[nian2]
- to go and return
- to return
- to resume
- to return to a normal or original state
- to repeat
- again
- to recover
- to restore
- to turn over
- to reply
- to answer
- to reply to a letter
- to retaliate
- to carry out
- to repeat
- to double
- to overlap
- complex (not simple)
- compound
- composite
- double
- diplo-
- duplicate
- overlapping
- to duplicate
- variant of 復|复[fu4]
- to reply to a letter
- one
- single
- a (article)
- as soon as
- entire; whole; all; throughout
- "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
- also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
nián- surname Nian
nián- year
- CL:個|个[ge4]
nián- grain
- harvest (old)
- variant of 年[nian2]

Other Words Containing 年复一年

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
年复一年 - - 17,364 31,937 20,366