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New Year / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
HSK 2
to celebrate the Chinese New Year
HSK 2
New Year's Day
HSK 5
lunar New Year's Eve
HSK 5
by the end of the year / at the end of the year; shortly before New Year
HSK 5
to pay a New Year call / to wish sb a Happy New Year
HSK 7-9
New Year (Spring Festival) picture
HSK 7-9
New Year's Eve family dinner
HSK 7-9
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
to extend New Year's greetings / to pay a New Year's visit
merchandise sold for Chinese New Year
the beginning of Spring / the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
lunar New Year's Eve
Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side)
riddles written on lanterns (e.g. for the Lantern Festival at the end of Chinese New Year)
to gather around the stove / (Tw) to come together for a family dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve
the New Year festival
(of an official) to take up a new post / (literary) to celebrate the New Year
ushering in wealth and prosperity (idiom and traditional greeting, esp. at New Year); We wish you wealth and success!
to see in the New Year / to welcome new guests / by extension, to receive new students
annual leave / New Year holidays
(increased) passenger transportation around Chinese New Year
nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour
fa gao, a type of steamed sponge cake, usu. sweetened, commonly consumed at Chinese New Year
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
to see in the New Year / to stay up all night on lunar New Year's Eve
beginning of spring / the lunar New Year
Happy New Year
Happy New Year!
New Year greeting card
a new year begins (idiom)
letter of congratulations / greeting card (e.g. for New Year)
New Year's card / CL: 張|张
(of a family) to come together at lunar New Year's Eve / family reunion at New Year's
lunar new year
usher out the old, greet the new / esp. to see in the New Year
Christmas and New Year's Day
Happy New Year!
to step into the new year / New Year
fukubukuro or "lucky bag", Japanese New Year custom where merchants offer grab bags containing random products at a steep discount
lit. (may you) have abundance year after year / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)
to exchange compliments on New Year's Day
money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve
lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)
CCTV New Year's Gala, Chinese New Year special / abbr. to 春晚
Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year
Chinese New Year festivities
Songkran (Thai New Year festival)
at the Chinese New Year or other festivities
to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
(coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve / (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian) / (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
to shop in preparation for Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year flower (Enkianthus quinqueflorus)
Chinese New Year
Auld Lang Syne, Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns 羅伯特·伯恩斯|罗伯特·伯恩斯, sung to mark the start of a new year or as a farewell / also rendered 友誼萬歲|友谊万岁 or 友誼天長地久|友谊天长地久
last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve
Spring Festival atmosphere; festive ambience of Chinese New Year
New Year's eve
Songkran (Thai New Year)
lunar New Year
last day of the lunar year / Chinese New Year's Eve
the day before New Year's Eve
Yi New Year
May you have a prosperous New Year! (New Year's greeting)
New Year's Day in the lunar calendar
May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting)
Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year
(of a store) to open for business for the first time in the New Year / (of a business) to be profitable / (of a stock market) to rise / (sport) to win one's first match of a competition
firecrackers set off at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day (a Chinese tradition)


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