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去年
qùnián
Main
English Definitionlast year
Simplified Script去年
Traditional ScriptSame
Pinyinqùnián
Effective Pinyin
(After Tone Sandhi)
Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)ㄑㄩˋ ㄋㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping)heoi3nin4
Part of Speech(名) noun, (时间) time word
Proficiency Test LevelHSK.v3=1 TOCFL=2
Word Decomposition
to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do something; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
niányear; (Chinese surname)

Related Words

Words With Same Head Word    
去世qùshìto pass away; to die
去除qùchúto remove; to dislodge
去向qùxiàngthe position of something; whereabouts
去掉qùdiàoto get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract
去处qùchùplace; destination
Words With Same Tail Word    
今年jīnniánthis year
明年míngniánnext year
前年qiánniánthe year before last
后年hòuniánthe year after next
新年xīnniánNew Year
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