DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

殘年短景

简残年短景 · 繁殘年短景

Mandarin · pinyin cán nián duǎn jǐng

at the end of the year (idiom)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

殘: Look up this written character
年: nián · year; new-years; person's age
短: duǎn · short; brief; deficient, lacking
景: jǐng · scenery, view; conditions
残: cán · injure, spoil; oppress; broken

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–2–3–3 · can2 nian2 duan3 jing3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character 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.

殘年短景 · find source passages ↗ · 残年短景 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗