Chinese symbol for “biennial”
二年生
èr nián shēng
(botany) (of a plant) biennial
The closest CC-CEDICT match for biennial is 二年生 (èr nián shēng), defined as: (botany) (of a plant) biennial.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 二年生.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 第二 | dì èr | second; number two |
| 第二次 | dì èr cì | the second time; the second occurrence |
| 第二天 | dì èr tiān | next day; the morrow |
| 二级 (二級) | èr jí | grade 2; second class |
| 十二 | shí èr | twelve; 12 |
| 二十 | èr shí | twenty; 20 |
| 年代 | nián dài | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age |
| 今年 | jīn nián | this year |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
See also: Japanese symbol for “biennial”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.