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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

年轻人

Pronunciation / Transliteration: niánqīngrén

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Youngster/ˈjʌŋ.stər/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"那个年轻人对未来充满了希望。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A child, young person, or young animal.

    "The local youngsters gathered at the park to play football."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adjective 'young' combined with the diminutive/agent suffix '-ster', which originated in Old English ('-estre') and later shifted to denote persons associated with a particular quality. The term has been used since the 16th century to affectionately or descriptively refer to a young person, child, or adolescent.

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