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春节 meaning in English

Chūnjié

Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

HSK 2nounTraditional 春節14 strokes

Meaning of 春节

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

Chūnjié
  1. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

How to use 春节

春节 is the most common everyday name for Chinese New Year, the biggest holiday of the year. People talk about going home, eating together, and watching the 春节联欢晚会 (Chūnjié Liánhuān Wǎnhuì), the Spring Festival Gala, on TV. Example: 春节你回家吗？ (Chūnjié nǐ huí jiā ma?) Are you going home for the Spring Festival?

春 (chūn) means spring, as in 春天 (chūntiān), and 节 (jié) means festival, as in 节日 (jiérì). Put them together and you get the festival that welcomes spring.

Common mistake: Learners often say 新年 (xīnnián) when they mean Chinese New Year, but 新年 usually means January 1st, while 春节 is the lunar holiday. Also keep the first tone on both syllables: Chūnjié, not chūnjiè.

春节 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

那nà里lǐ的de古gǔ话huà说shuō“没méi有yǒu花huā节jié，没méi有yǒu春chūn节jié。”
There is an old saying there: “No flower fairs, no Spring Festival.”
春chūn节jié，即jí农nóng历lì新xīn年nián。
Spring Festival is also known as Chinese New Year.
他tā或huò许xǔ不bú会huì再zài庆qìng祝zhù春chūn节jié了le。
Perhaps he would not celebrate Chinese New Year again.
春chūn节jié快kuài乐lè！
Merry Spring Festival!
从cóng那nà时shí起qǐ，在zài广guǎng州zhōu每měi年nián春chūn节jié的de时shí候hòu都dōu有yǒu花huā节jié。
From then on, flower fairs were held in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival every year.

Stroke order for each character

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春 chūn · springtime · 9 strokes

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节 jié · joint · 5 strokes

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Related words

Words that share a character with 春节.

节目jiémù(TV or radio) program; show; item; act; segment; number (on the program of a concert, vari
春天chūntiānspring (season)
节日jiérìholiday; festival
音节yīnjiésyllable
节约jiéyuēto economize; to conserve (resources)
细节xìjiédetails; particulars
青春qīngchūnyouth; youthfulness
季节jìjiétime; season
节省jiéshěngsaving; to save
春季chūnjìspringtime
情节qíngjiécircumstances; plot; storyline
环节huánjié(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc); (fig.) a part of an integrated w

Questions about 春节

What does 春节 mean?

春节 (Chūnjié) means "Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)" and is used as a noun.

How do you write 春节?

春节 is made of 2 characters: 春 (9 strokes), 节 (5 strokes). That is 14 strokes in total.

Is 春节 an HSK word?

Yes. 春节 is on the HSK 2 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.

How is 春节 written in traditional Chinese?

In traditional characters, 春节 is written 春節.

How do you say Happy Spring Festival in Chinese?

You can say 春节快乐 (Chūnjié kuàilè). Another very common greeting at this time is 新年快乐 (xīnnián kuàilè), Happy New Year.

When is 春节 each year?

春节 falls on the first day of the lunar calendar, so the date changes every year. It usually lands between late January and mid February.

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