春节(chūn jié): Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
Watch how each character of 春节 is written, one at a time. When a character is finished, the next one draws.
Word information
- Pinyin
- chūn jié
- Meaning
- Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
- HSK level
- HSK 2
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- 春節
Appears in lessons
春节 is taught in these textbook lessons.
Example sentences
How 春节 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
春节，即农历新年。
chūn jié jí nóng lì xīn nián
Spring Festival is also known as Chinese New Year.
庆祝春节俗称过年。
qìng zhù chūn jié sú chēng guò nián
Celebrating Spring Festival is commonly referred to as 'passing the year'.
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 春节 — tap one to open its word page.
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