Kanji1 / 6
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
- —忘新年会year-end parties (held in December) and New Year parties (held in January)
- —年間所得annual income; annual earnings
- —特定少年18 and 19-year olds (legally adults but covered by the 2022 Juvenile Act)
- —高年齢化ageing (of a population); aging
- —対象年齢relevant age group; target age; age group concerned
- —世帯年収(yearly) household income
- —野球少年boy who spends all of his free time playing baseball
- —ゼロ年代the 2000s; the '00s; the aughts; the noughties
- —年次休暇annual leave; annual paid vacation; annual paid holiday
- —何年間もmany years
- —老年医学geriatrics; geriatric medicine
- —老年病学geriatrics; geriatric medicine
- —年収の壁annual income threshold (that affects taxes or social insurance)
- —万年補欠benchwarmer
- —傷病年金pension for the sick and wounded; annuity for invalids
- —万年ヒラrank-and-file employee who never gets promoted
- —老年痴呆senile dementia
- —少年漫画shōnen manga; boys' comics; manga aimed a younger male audience
- —少年院法Juvenile Training School Act; Reformatory Law
- —年齢詐欺lying about one's age; age fabrication