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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

跨年

kuànián

to step into the new year

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to step into the new year

02

New Year

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 跨年 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 跨年 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你要去哪里跨年?nǐ yào qù nǎ lǐ kuà nián?

Where do you want to celebrate New Year?

我太专注於搭建乐高积木,以至於错过了 2025 跨年。wǒ tài zhuān zhù yú dā jiàn lè gāo jī mù, yǐ zhì yú cuò guò le 2025 kuà nián。

I was so engrossed in building LEGOs that I missed passing into 2025.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 跨年.

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

Directly before

  • 哪里跨年1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 跨年

What does 跨年 mean in Chinese?

跨年 (kuànián) means to step into the new year.

How do you pronounce 跨年?

跨年 is pronounced kuànián.

Is 跨年 an HSK word?

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

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