念 / 唸
niàn
Meaning
- to read · to study (a subject)
- to attend (a school)
- to read aloud
- to give (someone) a tongue-lashing
- to miss (someone)
- idea
- remembrance
- twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿 niàn)
- variant of 念 niàn, to read aloud
Example sentences
你怎么念你的名字？
你怎麼念你的名字？
nǐ zěn me niàn nǐ de míng zì？
How do you pronounce your name?
我觉得你该自己念。
我覺得你該自己念。
wǒ jué de nǐ gāi zì jǐ niàn。
I think you should read it yourself.
她在新竹念大学，每天都要骑车穿过竹科上课。
她在新竹念大學，每天都要騎車穿過竹科上課。
tā zài xīn zhú niàn dà xué， měi tiān dōu yào qí chē chuān guò zhú kē shàng kè。
She attends university in Hsinchu and rides her bike through the Hsinchu Science Park to class every day.