年轻

Character by character

• 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age
• 轻qīng9 strokesHSK 2 traditional 輕light; easy, simple; gentle

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

Example sentences

• 他很年轻。

  Tā hěn nián qīng

  He is very young.

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• 你还年轻。

  Nǐ hái nián qīng

  You're still green.

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• 我们不年轻。

  Wǒ men bù nián qīng

  We're not young.

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• 你可不年轻。

  Nǐ kě bu nián qīng

  You can't be young.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 年轻. 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

• 年代nián dàiHSK 3

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

• 轻松qīng sōngHSK 4

  light; gentle; relaxed; effortless; uncomplicated; to relax; to take things less seriously

• 轻qīngHSK 2

  light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage

• 年龄nián língHSK 5

  (a person's) age

• 明年míng niánHSK 1

  next year

• 当年dāng niánHSK 5

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

• 新年xīn niánHSK 1

  New Year

• 年纪nián jìHSK 3

  age

• 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

• 轻易qīng yìHSK 4

  easily; lightly; rashly

• 青少年qīng shào niánHSK 2

  adolescent; youth; teenager

• 多年duō niánHSK 4

  many years; for many years; longstanding

• 减轻jiǎn qīngHSK 5

  to lighten; to ease; to alleviate

• 童年tóng niánHSK 4

  childhood

• 多年来duō nián láiHSK 7

  for the past many years

• 中年zhōng niánHSK 2

  middle age

• 轻微qīng wēiHSK 7

  slight; light; trivial; to a small extent

• 年级nián jíHSK 2

  grade; year (in school, college etc)