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Mythic Mandarin

每年 (měi nián): meaning and stroke order

每年 (měi nián) means every year, each year, yearly.

每年

Simplified
每年
Traditional
每年 (same form)
Pinyin
měi nián

Stroke order of 每年

每

  • měi each; every
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

年

  • Nián surname Nian
  • nián year; CL:個|个[ge4]
  • nián grain; harvest (old)
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 秊

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 每年

  1. měi nián
    • every year
    • each year
    • yearly

Radicals of the characters

每
Radical 毋 (Kangxi radical 80) · 7 strokes · 𠂉 on top, 母 below
年
Radical 干 (Kangxi radical 51) · 6 strokes · 𠂉 on top, 㐄 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

每年 in our stories

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  • 晋文公抱着那棵柳树痛哭，下令以后每年这一天，全国不许生火，只吃冷食，这就是寒食节的由来。

    Jìn Wéngōng bào zhe nà kē liǔshù tòngkū xiàlìng yǐhòu měinián zhè yì tiān quánguó bùxǔ shēnghuǒ zhǐ chī lěng shí zhè jiùshì Hánshíjié de yóulái

    Duke Wen embraced the willow and wept, and decreed that every year on that day no fire should be lit anywhere in the land and only cold food eaten. That is the origin of the Cold Food Festival.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 每年

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).