小年

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	year
simp. and trad. (小年)		小	年

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ewʔ C.nˤi[ŋ]/

(Zhengzhang): /*smewʔ niːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	小	年
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎo	nián
Middle Chinese	‹ sjew^X ›	‹ nen ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ewʔ/	/*C.nˁi[ŋ]/
English	small	harvest; year
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

小年

lunar year in which the last month has 29 days
festival on the 23rd or 24th of the 12th month of the lunar year when sacrifices are made to the kitchen god
off year (for fruit trees, bamboos, etc.)
(literary) a short lifespan
- 朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Zhāojūn bù zhī huìshuò, huìgū bù zhī chūnqiū, cǐ xiǎonián yě. [Pinyin]
  The mushroom of a morning does not know (what takes place between) the beginning and end of a month; the short-lived cicada does not know (what takes place between) the spring and autumn. These are instances of a short term of life.
(literary) youth
(literary) nearly a year; a long time

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