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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
- —至福千年説millenarianism; millennialism; chiliasm
- —若年犯罪者juvenile offender
- —少年犯罪者juvenile offender; juvenile delinquent
- —成年後見人adult guardian; guardian of adult
- —特別少年院advanced juvenile training school; special reformatory; juvenile hall for grave offenders
- —少年刑務所juvenile prison; juvenile corrective institution
- —勤労青少年working youth
- —年代測定法age determination method; dating technique
- —年輪年代学dendrochronology
- —地質年代学geochronology
- —少年裁判所juvenile court
- —青年実業家young businessman
- —年輪年代法dendrochronology
- —選挙権年齢voting age
- —前年同月比compared to the same month the previous year (e.g. in statistics, sales, electricity usage)
- —当年とって... (years old) this year
- —年が明けるone's term of service expires (e.g. apprenticeship)
- —若年認知症early-onset dementia; presenile dementia
- —国民年金法National Pension Act
- —生没年不詳dates of birth and death unknown