HSK 6 · Society

拜年 bàinián “to give New Year greetings” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 拜年 means

  1. to give New Year greetings
  2. to pay a New Year call
  3. to wish sb a Happy New Year

How to say 拜年

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale拜bài4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale年nián2nd tone, rising

拜年 in a sentence

  1. 大妈，我们给您拜年来啦！

    Dàmā, wǒmen gěi nín bàinián lái la!

    Auntie, we’ve come to wish you a happy New Year!

    Sentence #12574943 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 拜年 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 拜 (bài) with each of its parts in a different colour
拜bàito bow to; to pay one’s respects
  • 手hand · shǒu
  • 手hand · shǒu
The character 年 (nián) drawn as one shape
年niányear

年 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidA person carrying ripe grain: one harvest, one year.

How to write 拜年

拜 9 strokes · 年 6 strokes

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拜年 (bàinián) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 拜年 (bàinián). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 拜年

Words with 拜

礼拜天Lǐbàitiān · Sunday拜托bàituō · to ask a favour拜访bàifǎng · to pay a visit崇拜chóngbài · to worship

Words with 年

年nián · year今年jīnnián · this year明年míngnián · next year去年qùnián · last year过年guònián · to celebrate the Chinese New Year年轻niánqīng · young年级niánjí · grade新年xīnnián · New Year前年qiánnián · the year before last后年hòunián · the year after next

More words: Society & Law

主席zhǔxí · chairperson总理zǒnglǐ · premier总统zǒngtǒng · president (of a country)案件ànjiàn · legal case颁布bānbù · to promulgate颁发bānfā · to award绑架bǎngjià · to kidnap包庇bāobì · to shield (wrongdoing)

FAQs

拜年 (bàinián) means “to give New Year greetings” or “to pay a New Year call”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàinián: bài with a 4th tone, then nián with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 拜年 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bainian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 拜年 from the suggestions. Typing bainian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
拜年 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.