年初

Character by character

• 年nián6 strokesHSK 1year; new-years; person's age
• 初chū8 strokesHSK 3beginning, initial, primary

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

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 年初. 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

• 初chūHSK 3

  at first; (at the) beginning; first; junior; basic

• 年龄nián língHSK 5

  (a person's) age

• 明年míng niánHSK 1

  next year

• 当初dāng chūHSK 3

  at that time; originally

• 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

• 青少年qīng shào niánHSK 2

  adolescent; youth; teenager

• 最初zuì chūHSK 4

  first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally

• 多年duō niánHSK 4

  many years; for many years; longstanding

• 初步chū bùHSK 3

  initial; preliminary; tentative

• 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

• 初中chū zhōngHSK 3

  junior high school (abbr. for 初级中学)