开年

開年

kāinián

noun

Meanings

1 start of the year
2 beginning of the (lunar) new year

Characters

to open; to start

Examples

HSK 2

开年第一场雪下得很大。

Kāinián dìyī chǎng xuě xià de hěn dà.

The first snow at the start of the year fell heavily.

HSK 7-9

公司开年就拿下了一个大订单。

Gōngsī kāinián jiù náxià le yī gè dà dìngdān.

The company landed a big order right at the start of the year.

Tips

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News-flavored time noun. Often appears in headlines like 开年首场 'first one of the year', 开年大戏 'opening drama of the year'. The implied scope is the current calendar/lunar year - narrower than 年初, which can refer more abstractly to 'early in the year'.

Stroke Order

开 kāi

年 nián