華年

Chinese

		flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain	year
trad. (華年)		華	年
simp. (华年)		华	年
anagram		年華／年华

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): huánián

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄋㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁴ nin⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huánián
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄋㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: huánián
  - Wade–Giles: hua²-nien²
  - Yale: hwá-nyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwanian
  - Palladius: хуанянь (xuanjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ ni̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: waa⁴ nin⁴
  - Yale: wàh nìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁴ nin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: wa⁴ nin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²¹ niːn²¹/

Noun

華年

(literary) youth; prime of one's life

Derived terms

錦瑟華年 / 锦瑟华年

Japanese

Kanji in this term
華	年
か Grade: S	ねん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Etymology

The character 華 can be decomposed into six 十 (“ten”) and a 一 (“one”).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かねん [kànéń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠nẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

華(か)年(ねん) • (kanen) ^{←くわねん (kwanen)^?}

61 years of age (in East Asian age reckoning)

Synonyms

華(か)甲(こう) (kakō)
還(かん)暦(れき) (kanreki)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN