年纪

Character by character

• 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age
• 纪jì6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 紀record, annal, historical account

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 我比他年纪还大。

  Wǒ bǐ tā nián jì hái dà

  I am yet older than he is.

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• 那个男人年纪很大。

  Nà ge nán rén nián jì hěn dà

  The man is old.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 年纪. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 年niánHSK 1

  grain; harvest (old); variant of 年

• 今年jīn niánHSK 1

  this year

• 去年qù niánHSK 1

  last year

• 年轻nián qīngHSK 2

  young

• 年代nián dàiHSK 3

  a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period

• 世纪shì jìHSK 3

  century

• 年龄nián língHSK 5

  (a person's) age

• 明年míng niánHSK 1

  next year

• 纪念jì niànHSK 3

  to commemorate; to honor the memory of; memento; keepsake; souvenir

• 当年dāng niánHSK 5

  in those days; then; in those years; during that time

• 新年xīn niánHSK 1

  New Year

• 青年qīng niánHSK 2

  youth; youthful years; young person; the young

• 周年zhōu niánHSK 2

  anniversary; annual

• 年度nián dùHSK 5

  year (e.g. school year, fiscal year); annual

• 少年shào niánHSK 2

  early youth; youngster; (literary) youth; young man

• 纪录jì lùHSK 3

  variant of 记录 (but in Taiwan, not for the verb sense "to record")

• 青少年qīng shào niánHSK 2

  adolescent; youth; teenager

• 多年duō niánHSK 4

  many years; for many years; longstanding

• 童年tóng niánHSK 4

  childhood

• 多年来duō nián láiHSK 7

  for the past many years

• 纪律jì lǜHSK 4

  discipline

• 中年zhōng niánHSK 2

  middle age

• 年级nián jíHSK 2

  grade; year (in school, college etc)

• 老年lǎo niánHSK 2

  elderly; old age; autumn of one's years