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元旦

Yuán dàn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

元旦 (Yuán dàn) means "New Year's Day (Jan 1)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 元旦 means

1. New Year's Day

The characters in 元旦

• 元yuáncurrency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…
• 旦dàn(literary) dawn; daybreak; dan, female role in Chinese opera…

Example sentences

• 元旦快乐！
  Happy New Year!
• 元旦就在眼前。
  Yuándàn jiù zàiyǎnqián.
  New Year's Day is close at hand.
• 元旦是一年的关键。
  Yuándàn shì yī nián de guānjiàn.
  New Year's Day is the key to the year.
• 很多日本人都会在元旦到神社参拜。
  Hěn duō Rìběnrén dōu huì zài Yuándàn dào shénshè cānbài.
  On New Year's Day many Japanese go to the shrine to worship.
• 很多日本人都会在元旦到神社叁拜。
  On New Year's Day many Japanese go to the shrine to worship.

Words starting with 元旦

• 元旦节Yuán dàn jiéNew Year's Day

Where 元旦 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Traditional Arts & Social Events (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read Yuán dàn correctly.
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