大年三十
dà nián sān shí
Pinyin

Definition

大年三十
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dà nián sān shí
  1. last day of the lunar year
  2. Chinese New Year's Eve

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

三
Sān
  1. 1 surname San
今年
jīn nián
  1. 1 this year
十
shí
  1. 1 ten
  2. 2 10
大
dà
  1. 1 big
  2. 2 huge
  3. 3 large
  4. 4 major
  5. 5 great
  6. 6 wide
  7. 7 deep
  8. 8 older (than)
  9. 9 oldest
  10. 10 eldest
  11. 11 greatly
  12. 12 very much
  13. 13 (dialect) father
  14. 14 father's elder or younger brother
大家
dà jiā
  1. 1 everyone
  2. 2 influential family
  3. 3 great expert

Idioms (20)

一五一十
yī wǔ yī shí
  1. 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一倡三叹
yī chàng sān tàn
  1. 1 (of literature, music) deeply moving (idiom)
一传十，十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一哭二闹三上吊
yī kū èr nào sān shàng diào
  1. 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
  2. 2 to throw a tantrum
一问三不知
yī wèn sān bù zhī
  1. 1 lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on
  3. 3 complete ignorance

Sample Sentences

肯定是要呆在家里吃这个年夜饭的。因为大年三十是一个团圆夜，所以一家团聚在一起吃饭，意义是非常重大的。
kěndìng shì yào dāi zài jiālǐ chī zhège niányèfàn de 。yīnwèi dànián sānshí shì yī ge tuányuán yè ，suǒyǐ yī jiā tuánjù zàiyīqǐ chīfàn ，yìyì shì fēicháng zhòngdà de 。
We definitely stay at home to have New Year's dinner. Because New Year's eve is a night for getting together, so it's very important for a family to get together to eat.
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比如说你是大年三十出生的，然后到了初一的时候，就是第二天，你已经两岁了。其实你才一天。
bǐrú shuō nǐ shì dànián sānshí chūshēng de ，ránhòu dào le chūyī de shíhou ，jiùshì dì èr tiān ，nǐ yǐjīng liǎng suì le 。qíshí nǐ cái yī tiān 。
For example, if you're born on the last day of the Chinese lunar year, and then on the first day of the Chinese lunar year, it's only the next day, but you're already two years old. In reality, you're only one day old.
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