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Next year in Chinese

next year · HSK 1

明年 míng nián

  1. 明 míng bright
  2. 年 nián year

明年我想去中国。 I want to go to China next year.

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How do you say next year in Chinese?

Next year in Chinese is 明年 (míng 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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