年

Noun or verb acting prenominally

biennial

(a) year or two

the old year; last year

summer of last year

year-end fair; year-end market

8000 years; thousands of years; eternity

more than a year

growing older

aging ceremony (on New Year's Eve or the last night of winter)

year of the Dragon

year of the Dog

annual installment; annual instalment

age at one's death

two years before

year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th and 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)

prayer service for a good crop

annual production

year of the Sheep

age (expressed in the Western style of counting fully completed years)

year of the Snake

New Year's gift

one full year

millennium

year of the Rooster; year of the Cock

forgetting the hardships of the old year

forgetting one another's age difference