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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

同年

tóngnián

the same year

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

the same year

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 同年 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 同年 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我和他同年。wǒ hé tā tóng nián。

I'm as old as he is.

我和金同年。wǒ hé jīn tóng nián。

Kim and I are the same age.

她跟我同年。tā gēn wǒ tóng nián。

She and I are of an age.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 同年.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 同年.

Directly before

  • 我同年2
  • 他同年1
  • 金同年1

Directly after

  • 同年同日生1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 同年

What does 同年 mean in Chinese?

同年 (tóngnián) means the same year.

How do you pronounce 同年?

同年 is pronounced tóngnián.

Is 同年 an HSK word?

同年 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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