去年

Character by character

• 去qù5 strokesHSK 1go away, leave, depart
• 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age

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Words with the same characters

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

• 去qùHSK 1

  to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

• 年niánHSK 1

  grain; harvest (old); variant of 年

• 过去guò qùHSK 2

  (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by

• 出去chū qùHSK 1

  to go out

• 下去xià qùHSK 3

  to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw

• 今年jīn niánHSK 1

  this year

• 失去shī qùHSK 3

  to lose

• 年轻nián qīngHSK 2

  young

• 回去huí quHSK 1

  to return; to go back

• 年代nián dàiHSK 3

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

• 进去jìn qùHSK 1

  to go in

• 年龄nián língHSK 5

  (a person's) age

• 上去shàng qùHSK 3

  to go up

• 明年míng niánHSK 1

  next year

• 看上去kàn shang quHSK 3

  it would appear; it seems (that)

• 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

• 去世qù shìHSK 3

  to pass away; to die

• 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