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闰年

leap year

闰年
rùnnián4th tone
Pinyin
rùnnián
Strokes
13
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 闰年

闰年 is written with 13 strokes (: 7, : 6). The animation replays automatically.

Usage

Calendar term. A year containing one extra day (February 29) to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical year.

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闰年 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

普通年份的二月有二十八天,闰年有二十九天。

February has twenty-eight days in common years and twenty-nine days in leap years.

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