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Chinese symbol for “perennial”

多年生
duō nián shēng
(botany) (of a plant) perennial

The closest CC-CEDICT match for perennial is 多年生 (duō nián shēng), defined as: (botany) (of a plant) perennial.

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Characters and stroke order

多 duō
much, many, multi-; more than, over
radical 36 ⼣ · 6 strokes
年 nián
year; anniversary; a person's age
radical 51 ⼲ · 6 strokes
生 shēng
life, lifetime; birth; growth
radical 100 ⽣ · 5 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 多年生.

WordPinyinMeaning
许多 (許多)xǔ duōmany; a lot of
多少duō shǎonumber; amount; somewhat
多年duō niánmany years; for many years
多数 (多數)duō shùmajority; most
多么 (多麼)duō mehow (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc)
年代nián dàia decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age
今年jīn niánthis year
每年měi niánevery year; each year
发生 (發生)fā shēngto 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 “perennial”.

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.