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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
- —低年齢化age lowering; reduction in age
- —定年帰農post-retirement return to one's home town and carrying out agricultural pursuits
- —年代測定age determination; dating
- —学年主任head of year; teacher in charge of all classes for a whole year
- —基礎年金basic pension
- —年齢確認age verification
- —新年早々(at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year
- —成人年齢age of majority; age of adulthood
- —年末商戦battle for sales at year-end; year-end shopping season
- —年周視差annual parallax; heliocentric parallax; stellar parallax
- —成年年齢age of majority; age of adulthood
- —家出少年runaway child; youngster who has run away from home
- —十年選手veteran player; experienced player; veteran (at a job)
- —年間パスannual pass
- —百年国恥century of humiliation (in Chinese history)
- —同意年齢age of consent
- —中年太りmiddle-aged spread; weight put on in middle age
- —年率換算annualized rate
- —少年事件incident (e.g. crime) involving a minor (between the ages of 14 and 19)
- —前年割れyear-to-year decline