元旦 (yuán dàn) means “New Year's Day”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
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元旦是新年的第一天。
Yuándàn shì xīnnián de dì yī tiān.
New Year's Day is the first day of the new year.
Updated: 2026-05-27