Chinese New Year

English

Etymology

Chinese +‎ New Year, the latter component also matching the traditional name of the holiday, 新年 (xīnnián, “New Year”) = 新 (xīn, “new”) + 年 (nián, “year”).

Noun

Chinese New Year (plural Chinese New Years)

1. An annual Chinese holiday, marking the beginning of a new year according to the traditional Chinese calendar.

Synonyms

• Spring Festival, Lunar New Year, Yuan Tan, Chunjie

Translations

Chinese New Year

• Arabic: رَأْس السَّنَة الصِّينِيَّة (raʔs as-sana(t) aṣ-ṣīniyya), عِيد الرَّبِيع (ʕīd ar-rabīʕ)
• Betawi: lebaran cina
• Burmese: တရုတ်နှစ်တစ်ကူး (ta.ruthnactacku:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新年 (san¹ nin⁴), 農曆新年／农历新年 (nung⁴ lik⁶ san¹ nin⁴)

  Hokkien: 新正 (zh-min-nan) (sin-chiaⁿ)

  Mandarin: 春節／春节 (zh) (chūnjié), 農曆新年／农历新年 (zh) (nónglì xīnnián)

• Finnish: kiinalainen uusivuosi
• French: nouvel an chinois (fr) m
• Galician: aninovo chinés m
• Georgian: ჩინური ახალი წელი (činuri axali c̣eli)
• German: chinesisches Neujahrsfest
• Hindi: चीनी नववर्ष (cīnī navvarṣ)
• Hungarian: kínai újév, holdújév (hu), tavaszünnep
• Indonesian: Imlek, hari raya Imlek, imlek (id), tahun baru imlek, sincia
• Japanese: 旧正月 (ja) (きゅうしょうがつ, kyūshōgatsu), 春節 (ja) (しゅんせつ, shunsetsu)
• Kazakh: Қытай Жаңа жылы (Qytai Jaña jyly)
• Khmer: ចូលឆ្នាំចិន (coulchnamcən), នានិទាឃរដូវ (néanĭtéakhrôdov)
• Korean: 춘절(春節) (chunjeol), 설 (ko) (seol), 설날 (ko) (seollal)
• Lao: ກຸດຈີນ (lo) (kut chīn), ປີໃໝ່ຈີນ (pī mai chīn), ປີໃໝ່ຫວຽດ (pī mai wīat)
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: Tahun Baru Cina, Raya Cina (Malaysia)
• Mongolian: Хятадын Шинэ Жил (Xjatadyn Šine Žil)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kinesisk nyttår n

• Portuguese: ano novo chinês m
• Russian: Кита́йский Но́вый год m (Kitájskij Nóvyj god)
• Spanish: año nuevo chino m
• Tagalog: Bagong Taon ng mga Tsino
• Thai: ตรุษจีน (th) (dtrùt-jiin)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: چاغان (chaghan), باھار بايرىمى (bahar bayrimi)
• Vietnamese: Tết Nguyên Đán (vi) (節元旦), Tết (vi), Tết ta, Tết âm lịch
• Zhuang: cieng