Chinese Character Wiki
秊

nián

year

Variant form of 年. Pictograph of a person (人) harvesting grain (禾). The harvest season is a yearly event.

Components
禾 iconic component

禾  Iconic component

hé

  

grain stalk

人 iconic component

人  Iconic component

rén

  

person

Evolution

秊 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
秊 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
秊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
秊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
秊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

秊  

nián

year; new-years; person's age

年 (秊) 

nián

grain; harvest (old); variant of 年[nián]

Most common words with 秊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

年

grain

今年

this year

年轻

young

去年

last year

年代

age

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 96.9246% of movies

154th most common character in movies

45th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+79CA

Shuowen

“年，穀孰也。从禾，千聲。”


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