華年

Chinese

		flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain	year
trad. (華年)		華	年
simp. (华年)		华	年
anagram		年華／年华

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huánián

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄋㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁴ nin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huánián
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄋㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huánián
    • Wade–Giles: hua²-nien²
    • Yale: hwá-nyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwanian
    • Palladius: хуанянь (xuanjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ ni̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁴ nin⁴
    • Yale: wàh nìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁴ nin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁴ nin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²¹ niːn²¹/

Noun

華年

1. (literary) youth; prime of one's life

Derived terms

• 錦瑟華年／锦瑟华年

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
華	年
か Grade: S	ねん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

The character 華 can be decomposed into six 十 (“ten”) and a 一 (“one”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かねん [kànéń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠nẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

華(か)年(ねん) • (kanen) ^{←くわねん (kwanen)?}

1. 61 years of age (in East Asian age reckoning)

Synonyms

• 華(か)甲(こう) (kakō)
• 還(かん)暦(れき) (kanreki)