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这年头

zhèniántou

(coll.) nowadays

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(coll.) nowadays

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 这年头 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 这年头 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

别忘了这年头好工作已经很难找了。bié wàng le zhè nián tóu hǎo gōng zuò yǐ jīng hěn nán zhǎo le。

Don't forget that good jobs are very hard to come by these days.

现在这年头,要是还搬出「论资排辈」那一套,只会招来年轻人的反弹而已。xiàn zài zhè nián tóu, yào shì hái bān chū 「lùn zī pái bèi」 nà yī tào, zhǐ huì zhāo lái nián qīng rén de fǎn tán ér yǐ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 这年头.

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

Directly before

  • 别忘了这年头1
  • 现在这年头1

Directly after

  • 这年头好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 这年头

What does 这年头 mean in Chinese?

这年头 (zhèniántou) means (coll.) nowadays.

How do you pronounce 这年头?

这年头 is pronounced zhèniántou.

Is 这年头 an HSK word?

这年头 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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