Chinese symbol for “yearly”
每年
měi nián
every year; each year; yearly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for yearly is 每年 (měi nián), defined as: every year; each year; yearly.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “yearly”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 每年.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 每个 (每個) | měi ge | each; every |
| 每天 | měi tiān | every day |
| 每次 | měi cì | each time; every time |
| 每日 | měi rì | daily; (soup etc) of the day |
| 每周 (每週) | měi zhōu | every week |
| 年代 | nián dài | a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age |
| 今年 | jīn nián | this year |
| 青年 | qīng nián | youth; youthful years |
See also: Japanese symbol for “yearly”.
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.