今 jīn
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 人 — man, person
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
今年
jīnnián
this year
Characters in this word
年 nián
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 干 — arid, dry
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 今年我二十岁。 Jīnnián wǒ èrshí suì. I'm twenty this year.
- 今年我在北京。 Jīnnián wǒ zài Běijīng. This year I'm in Beijing.
- 我今年去中国。 Wǒ jīnnián qù Zhōngguó. I'm going to China this year.