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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
- —千年鯛emperor red snapper (Lutjanus sebae); bourgeois red snapper; bourgeois fish
- —中学年middle grades of primary school (third and fourth grades)
- —少年課juvenile division (police); juvenile section
- —学年暦school year calendar; calendar of school events and dates
- —少年兵child soldier
- —千年説millenarianism; millennialism; chiliasm
- —低年齢young (e.g. young children); of few years
- —高年齢aged; elderly
- —年俸制annual salary system
- —美青年handsome young man; Adonis
- —中年男middle-aged man
- —中年女middle-aged woman
- —越年草winter annual; biennial; biennial plant
- —一年氷first-year ice
- —多年氷multi-year ice
- —二年氷second-year ice
- —年明けexpiration of a term of service
- —年明きexpiration of a term of service
- —年長組senior class (kindergarten, pre-school, etc.)
- —紀年法calendar era; year numbering system used by a calendar