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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
- —老年学gerontology
- —築年数age of a building
- —数年後a few years later
- —少年愛pederasty; boy love; shōnen-ai (manga subgenre depicting romantic relationships between boys); boys' love
- —年金額amount of a pension payment; annuity
- —一年忌first anniversary of a person's death
- —万年娘woman of perennial youth
- —逸年号unofficial era name; apocryphal era name
- —異年号unofficial era name; apocryphal era name
- —万年塀precast concrete fence
- —前々年two years before
- —出版年year of publication
- —有余年more than ... years; -odd years
- —年少組junior class; younger group
- —最晩年last years of one's life; very late in one's life
- —年較差annual range (of temperature)
- —製作年year of manufacture
- —平年値climatological normal (30-year average of a climatic element); climate normal
- —年齢肌skin showing signs of old age (e.g. wrinkles); ageing skin
- —回帰年tropical year; solar year