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Mythic Mandarin

晚年 (wǎn nián): meaning and stroke order

晚年 (wǎn nián) means one's later years.

晚年

Simplified
晚年
Traditional
晚年 (same form)
Pinyin
wǎn nián

Stroke order of 晚年

晚

  • wǎn evening; night
  • 11 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 晚年

  1. wǎn nián
    • one's later years

Radicals of the characters

晚
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 11 strokes · 日 on the left, 免 on the right
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.

晚年 in our stories

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  • 他在晚年写下了一本书，叫“洗冤集录”，意思是洗清冤屈的记录，这是世界上最早的系统的法医学著作之一。

    tā zài wǎnnián xiě xià le yì běn shū jiào Xǐyuān Jílù yìsi shì xǐ qīng yuānqū de jìlù zhè shì shìjiè shàng zuì zǎo de xìtǒng de fǎyīxué zhùzuò zhīyī

    In his later years he wrote a book called Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified—a record of washing away wrongs—one of the world's earliest systematic works of forensic medicine.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 晚年

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).