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

开年第一场雪下得很大。

Kāinián dì yī chǎng xuě xià de hěn dà.

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

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