元年

元
年
first year of an emperor's reign / first year of an era / first year of a significant time period

Characters and words in 元年

元
yuán = yu + an2
surname Yuan / the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
元
yuán = yu + an2
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon
元 = 二 + 儿 : Sun Wu Kong offers Yu the Great a coin just inside the anthill's kitchen. As Yu the Great takes it, she's literally shocked: Sun Wu Kong hooked up a capacitor to it to play a bad joke on her, and he's laughing his ass off.
年
nián = ni + an2
surname Nian
年
nián = ni + an2
year / CL:個|个[ge4]
年 = 午 + 丨 + 一 : Nefertiti (ni) is having lunch (午) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Unfortunately they didn't have any cutlery left so she has to use a dinosaur bone (丨) and a flute (一) instead of fork and knife. It will take her a whole year (年) to finish her lunch this way.
年
秊
nián = ni + an2
grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]

Words with 元年

元年 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 元年

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