Chinese New Year

English 2026 February 17 Kung Hei Fat Choi! (6834861529).jpg A Chinese New Year firework display over Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. ChineseNewYearBostonLionDance1.jpg A lion dance at a Chinese New Year festival in Chinatown in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Alternative forms en CNY abbreviation Etymology From en Chinese a New Year n 1 endocentric, the latter component matching the traditional name of the holiday, cmn 新年 xīnnián New Year: zh 新 xīn new + zh 年 nián year. Pronunciation en /ˌt͡ʃaɪˌniːz ˌnjuː ˈjɪə/ /-ˈjɜː/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Chinese New Year.wav Southern England /ˌt͡ʃaɪˌniːz ˌnjuː ˈjɪə/ en /ˌt͡ʃaɪˌniz ˈn(j)u ˌjɪ(ə)ɹ/ GA en ɪə ɜː 4 RP en Chin ese New Year Proper noun s Chinese New Year en Q131772 An annual Chinese festival marking the beginning of the new year according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, starting on the first day of the first lunar month and traditionally ending on the fifteenth day when there is a full moon. It is often celebrated by visiting family and friends, and giving gifts of money in red envelopes (ang pows or hongbao). en Chunjie Yuan Tan en Lunar New Year Spring Festival<qq:synonymous in context> en 1704 John Francis Gemelli Careri [i.e., Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri] [A Voyage Round the World Containing the Most Remarkable Things He Saw in China.] The Chinese New Year, and Solemn Festivals of the Lanthorns w:Awnsham Churchill; John Churchill, compilers [anonymous] A Collection of Voyages and Travels,Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Publish’d in English. In Six Volumes. With a General Preface, Giving an Account of the Progress of Navigation, from Its First Beginning. Illustrated with a Great Number of Useful Maps and Cuts, Curiously Engraven. London Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, for John Walthoe,over-against the Royal-Exchange, in Cornhill; Tho[mas] Wotton, at the Queen’s Head and Three Daggers over-against St. Dunstan’s Church, in Fleet-street; Samuel Birt, in Ave-Mary-Lane, Ludgate-street; Daniel Browne, at the Black-Swan, without Temple-Bar; Thomas Osborn, in Gray’s Inn; John Shuckburgh, at the Sun, next the Inner-Temple-Gate, in Fleet-street; and Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, against St. Dunstan’s Church, in Fleet-street 1732 IV part IV 385 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-collection-of-voyages-_1732_4/page/385/mode/1up 2 858523939 The Chin-yve Chunjie, or Chineſe nevv year, begins vvith the nevv moon that falls next to the 5th of February, or the 15th degree of Aquarius, vvhich divides into tvvo equal parts the ſpace betvveen tvvo points in the equinox, and ſolſtice; and on that day according to them, the ſun enters a ſign they call Lie-chun, or the reſurrection of the ſpring. en 1883 November–December [Arthur] Moule A Calendar of Flowers The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press XIV 6 470 https://archive.org/details/sim_chinese-recorder-and-missionary-journal_november-december-1883_14_6/page/470/mode/1up 6781272 Very soon after the Chinese New years day, in February, the fragrant orchid, the Lan-hua, is brought in from the hills for sale in great quantities, and may be seen and its fragrance noticed in many a Chinese home. en 2000 spring Benjamin F. Schemmer Editorial: Pandering Benjamin F. Schemmer Strategic Review Boston, Mass. United States Strategic Institute in association with the Center for International Relations, Boston University XXVIII 2 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=HwrfAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 1 0091-6846 1371072055 Late in January a fusillade of Pentagon communiques announced that the Chinese New Year would be upon us come early February. In over 60 Chinese New Years, this was the first time the Pentagon has ever alerted us that another one was just around the corner, as if it were a cataclysmic event warranting some form of immediate action. Why the unusual preoccupation with the "Year of the Dragon"? en 2018 Stephen Ling This is China North Charleston, S.C. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 529 https://archive.org/details/thisischina0000ling/page/529/mode/1up 978-1-984173-07-2 I was too old to receive a hongbao (the Chinese New Year hongbao is strictly for children and teenagers and some young single adults) but before I left the LiuJiang village, Jake gave me a four-volume set of A Dream Of Red Mansions … one of China's Four Great Classical Novels, considered a masterpiece of Chinese literature, en 5 February 2019 Adrian Lim Multiracial CNY celebrations true to Singapore spirit: President Halimah w:The Straits Times https://web.archive.org/web/20190205102654/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/multiracial-cny-celebrations-true-to-spore-spirit-president-halimah Singapore w:Singapore Press Holdings 47722736 In a Chinese New Year video message posted on her Facebook page yesterday, President Halimah Yacob said the fact that the celebrations here also commonly embrace those of other races is "true to the Singapore spirit". Translations annual Chinese festival marking the beginning of the new year according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar Arabic: ar رَأْس السَّنَة الصِّينِيَّة, ar عِيد الرَّبِيع Betawi: bew Lebaran Cina, bew Sincia Bulgarian: bg Кита́йска Но́ва годи́на f Burmese: my တရုတ်နှစ်တစ်ကူး Catalan: ca any nou xinès Chinese: Cantonese: yue 農曆新年, yue 新年 Hokkien: nan-hbl 新正 sin-chiaⁿ Mandarin: cmn 春節, cmn 農曆新年, cmn 中國新年 Finnish: fi kiinalainen uusivuosi French: fr nouvel an chinois m Galician: gl aninovo chinés m Georgian: ka ჩინური ახალი წელი German: de chinesisches Neujahrsfest Hindi: hi चीनी नववर्ष Hungarian: hu holdújév, hu kínai újév, hu tavaszünnep Indonesian: id sincia, id Tahun Baru Imlek, id Tahun Baru Tionghoa Japanese: ja 旧正月 きゅうしょうがつ, kyūshōgatsu, ja 春節 しゅんせつ, shunsetsu Kazakh: kk Қытай Жаңа жылы Khmer: km ចូលឆ្នាំចិន, km នានិទាឃរដូវ Korean: ko 춘절(春節), ko 설, ko 설날 Lao: lo ກຸດຈີນ, lo ປີໃໝ່ຈີນ, lo ປີໃໝ່ຫວຽດ Lü: khb Malay: ms Raya Cina Malaysia, ms Tahun Baru Cina Mongolian: mn Хятадын Шинэ Жил Norwegian: Bokmål: nb kinesisk nyttår n Nynorsk: nn Polish: pl chiński Nowy Rok m Portuguese: pt ano novo chinês m Russian: ru Кита́йский Но́вый год m Spanish: es año nuevo chino m Sundanese: su Pabaru Cina Tagalog: tl Bagong Taon ng mga Tsino Tamil: ta சீனப்புத்தாண்டு Thai: th ตรุษจีน Tibetan: bo Ukrainian: uk Uyghur: ug چاغان, ug باھار بايرىمى Vietnamese: vi Tết, vi Tết Âm lịch, vi Tết Nguyên Đán (vi 節元旦), vi Tết ta Zhuang: za cieng Further reading n 1681452314 December 2025 n https://web.archive.org/web/20220816223524/https://www.lexico.com/definition/Chinese_New_Year en adjective-noun compound nouns en China Festivals New Year