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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
- —年払いyearly payment; annual payment
- —脳年齢mental age
- —年暮れyear end
- —若年層the young
- —越年蝶eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)
- —多年生perennation; perennial; perennial plant
- —近点年anomalistic year
- —前年比year on year; on the previous year
- —式年祭imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)
- —一年半one year and a half
- —壮年期prime of one's life; stage of maturity
- —年日付ordinal date
- —数十年few decades; many decades; several decades
- —学年度the school year
- —数年来several years standing; over several years
- —好青年good young man; agreeable youth
- —万年草stonecrop (Sedum spp.)
- —豊年蝦Branchinella kugenumaensis (species of fairy shrimp)
- —老年期old age
- —百年前one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously