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拜年

bài nián

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

拜年 (bài nián) means "to pay a Chinese New Year call". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 拜年 means

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

The characters in 拜年

• 拜bàito bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings…
• 年niányear

Example sentences

• 大妈, 我们给您拜年来啦！
  Auntie, we’ve come to wish you a Happy New Year.

Words containing 拜年

• 黄鼠狼给鸡拜年huáng shǔ láng gěi jī bài niánBeware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
• 黄鼠狼给鸡拜年，没安好心huáng shǔ láng gěi jī bài nián , méi ān hǎo xīnsee 黄鼠狼给鸡拜年

Where 拜年 is taught

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

Go deeper

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