IDENTITY
新xīnnew
HSK 1Top 100
CORE MEANING
new
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.newHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 斤ax radical (jīn)
- strokes
- 13
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰亲斤
- gives the sound xīn (historical)
- ax; cutting new wood
USAGE
Common words
新年xīnniánNew Year
新闻xīnwénnews
新衣服xīn yīfunew clothes
Graded examples
祝你新年快乐！Zhù nǐ xīnnián kuàilè!HSK2
Happy New Year!
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 亲
LEARNING
Memory aid
Freshly cut (斤) wood from a close (亲) tree — new.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #100
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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