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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
- —青少年犯罪youth crime; juvenile crime
- —中年症候群mid-life crisis
- —新年の抱負New Year's resolution
- —十五年戦争Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; fifteen years' war
- —式年遷宮祭fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
- —例年になくunusually (compared to a typical year)
- —子持万年草Sedum bulbiferum (species of stonecrop)
- —雄之万年草needle stonecrop (Sedum lineare)
- —雌の万年草Sedum rupifragum (species of stonecrop)
- —年初来高値yearly high (stocks)
- —交付年月日date of issuance (e.g. of a license or passport)
- —年輪気候学dendroclimatology; tree-ring climatology
- —新年になるthe New Year begins; the New Year starts
- —年季が入るto become experienced (after many years of practice); to become worn (through long use); to show its age
- —年頭の誓いNew Year's resolution
- —年金生活者pensioner
- —年金保険料insurance premium; pension contribution
- —年中発情期year-round mating season
- —言語年代学glottochronology
- —千年王国説millenarianism; millennialism; chiliasm