小年夜
Traditional form:
小年夜
Pinyin (reading):
xiǎoniányè
Definitions:
- (coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve
- (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (either lunisolar or Gregorian)
- (old) Little New Year's Eve (the 23rd or 24th of the 12th lunisolar month, when people offer sacrifices to the kitchen god)
Characters:
- 小 - small, tiny, insignificant
- 年 - year; anniversary; a person's age
- 夜 - night, dark; under cover of night
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