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year

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

nian2 nián

Meaning


Primary

year

Alternatives

years

Mnemonic


[ni-] Neo is [2] inside the [-an] pawn shop, controlling time. He closes his eyes and imagines it is one 年 year in the future, and it suddenly is. This is the power of being able to manipulate the Matrix. Plus now he has a whole 年 year's worth of wages.

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