去年底

Mandarin · pinyin qù nián dǐ

Meanings

  1. late last year
  2. the end of last year
Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

去
qù · go away, leave, depart
年
nián · year; new-years; person's age
底
dǐ · bottom, underneath, underside
Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–2–3 · qu4 nian2 di3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

3character links
Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗
Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

去年底 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗