青年

Character by character

• 青qīng8 strokesHSK 2blue, green; young; Kangxi radical 174
• 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age

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

Example sentences

• 她是文艺青年。

  Tā shì wén yì qīng nián

  She is a young artist.

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• 他是个有为的青年。

  Tā shì gè yǒu wéi de qīng nián

  He is a promising young man.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 青年. 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

• 年龄nián língHSK 5

  (a person's) age

• 明年míng niánHSK 1

  next year

• 青qīngHSK 5

  green; blue; black; youth; young (of people)

• 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

• 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

• 青少年qīng shào niánHSK 2

  adolescent; youth; teenager

• 多年duō niánHSK 4

  many years; for many years; longstanding

• 青春qīng chūnHSK 4

  youth; youthfulness

• 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

• 年级nián jíHSK 2

  grade; year (in school, college etc)

• 老年lǎo niánHSK 2

  elderly; old age; autumn of one's years

• 未成年人wèi chéng nián rénHSK 7

  minor (i.e. person under 18)

• 成年chéng niánHSK 7

  to grow to adulthood; fully grown; adult; the whole year