Kanji1 / 6
年 kanji
year, counter for years
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
ネン
Kun readings
とし
Variant forms
秊Words with 年
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —青年会young persons' association
- —恒星年a sidereal year
- —成年式coming-of-age ceremony
- —初年兵new or raw recruit
- —高年者elderly person
- —満年齢age (expressed in the Western style of counting fully completed years)
- —幼年期childhood; infancy
- —生没年years of (someone's) birth and death
- —翌々年two years later; year after next
- —火星年Martian year
- —祈年祭prayer service for a good crop
- —次年度next (fiscal) year
- —数年間several years
- —青年輩young people
- —千年紀millennium
- —年齢順by priority of age
- —付年表appendix with chronological table
- —本年度current year (fiscal, academic, etc.)
- —明年度next (fiscal) year
- —２年生second-year student; second-year pupil; biennial; biennial plant