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Last year in Chinese

last year · HSK 1

去年 qù nián

  1. 去 qù to go
  2. 年 nián year

我去年去过一次日本。 I went to Japan once last year.

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How do you say last year in Chinese?

Last year in Chinese is 去年 (qù nián).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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