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常年

cháng nián

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

常年 (cháng nián) means "all year round". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 常年 means

1. all year round
2. for years on end
3. average year

The characters in 常年

• 常chángalways; ever; often
• 年niányear

Words starting with 常年

• 常年累月cháng nián lěi yuèvariant of 长年累月

Sounds the same

Read cháng nián, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 长年all the year round

Where 常年 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chān–chǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cháng nián correctly.
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