年轻/年輕 niánqīng — young

Meanings

1. 1

   young

   Young in years — 年 years, 轻 light. It is said of people and of living things, and it is a compliment when said of someone who is not: 您还这么年轻.

   adjective

Character breakdown

• 年

  nián (second tone, rising)

  year; age, years of a person’s life; the annual harvest (original sense)

  6 strokesRadical 干

Example sentences

• 我们的老师很年轻。/我們的老師很年輕。Wǒmen (third tone, dipping) de (neutral tone) lǎoshī (third tone, dipping) hěn (third tone, dipping) niánqīng. (second tone, rising)···

  Our teacher is very young.

• 他比我年轻两岁。/他比我年輕兩歲。Tā (first tone, high and level) bǐ (third tone, dipping) wǒ (third tone, dipping) niánqīng (second tone, rising) liǎng (third tone, dipping) suì. (fourth tone, falling)···

  He is two years younger than me.

Common mistakes

• Not quite这个手机很年轻。

  Correct这个手机很新。

  年轻 counts years lived, so only something alive can be it. A recently made object is 新. English "young company", "young wine" do not translate with 年轻.

Similar words

Words containing 年

• 年nián (second tone, rising)year
• 今年jīn (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)this year
• 去年qùnián (fourth tone, falling)last year
• 年代nián (second tone, rising) dài (fourth tone, falling)a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)
• 年龄/年齡nián (second tone, rising) líng (second tone, rising)(a person's) age
• 年级/年級niánjí (second tone, rising)year, grade (at school)
• 明年míng (second tone, rising) nián (second tone, rising)next year
• 当年/當年dāng (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)in those days
• 新年xīn (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)New Year
• 年纪/年紀nián (second tone, rising) jì (fourth tone, falling)age
• 青年qīng (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)youth
• 周年/週年zhōu (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)anniversary
• 年度nián (second tone, rising) dù (fourth tone, falling)year (e.g. school year
• 少年shào (fourth tone, falling) nián (second tone, rising)early youth
• 青少年qīng (first tone, high and level) shào (fourth tone, falling) nián (second tone, rising)adolescent
• 多年duō (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)many years
• 童年tóng (second tone, rising) nián (second tone, rising)childhood