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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
- —一昨々年two years before last (year); three years back (ago)
- —千年一日without intermission for many years; with constancy of purpose for many years; in the same old rut for years on end
- —年少気鋭being young and spirited; being young and full of go
- —年末年始year-end and New Year holidays (e.g. from December 29 to January 3)
- —百年河清waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; when the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- —不良老年old sinner; elderly man-about-town; older person who enjoys free and easy lifestyle unfettered by social taboos
- —万年青年man of perennial youth; man who never loses his youthful vigor
- —障害年金disability pension; invalid pension
- —対前年比relative change from last year
- —青年客気youthful ardor; rash impulse of an inexperienced youth
- —年少客気youthful ardor; rash impulse of an inexperienced youth
- —遺恨十年grudge of ten years' standing; harbouring a grudge for many years
- —年齢相応(appropriate for) one's age
- —議員年金legislators' pension (and retirement benefits)
- —式年遷宮construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time
- —中高年者the middle-aged and the elderly
- —熟年離婚divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (often brought on by retirement of the husband)
- —定年離婚divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband)
- —年齢差別age discrimination; agism
- —熟年夫婦middle-aged couple; middle-aged husband and wife