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阴历

yīn lì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 陰曆

阴历 (yīn lì) means "lunar calendar". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 阴历 means

1. lunar calendar

The characters in 阴历

• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady
• 历lìcalendar

Example sentences

• 中国按阴历过新年。
  In China, they celebrate New Year by the lunar calendar.

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