He's the oldest son.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
年长
senior
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
senior
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 年长 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 年长 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom can't be older than me.
Ken is older than Seiko.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 年长.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 年长.
Directly before
- 我年长3
- 更加年长1
- 最年长1
- 你年长1
- 自己年长1
Directly after
- 年长的3
- 年长时1
- 年长也1
- 年长而1
- 年长了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 年长
What does 年长 mean in Chinese?
年长 (niánzhǎng) means senior.
How do you pronounce 年长?
年长 is pronounced niánzhǎng.
Is 年长 an HSK word?
年长 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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