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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
- —生没年未詳dates of birth and death unknown
- —年齢サインsigns of aging
- —何年ぶりかfor the first time in years
- —定年退職者retired person (who has reached retirement age); retiree
- —年季奉公人indentured servant; articled apprentice
- —少年飛行兵male cadet (aged 14-19) in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (during WWII)
- —国際児童年International Year of the Child
- —宇治少年院Uji Reform School
- —岡山少年院Okayama Reform School
- —広島少年院Hiroshima Reform School
- —四国少年院Shikoku Reform School
- —多摩少年院Tama Reform School
- —帯広少年院Obihiro Reform School
- —東北少年院Tōhoku Reform School
- —百年の孤独One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez)
- —中国青年報China Youth Daily (newspaper)
- —年度替わりchange in the fiscal year; (over the) fiscal year-end
- —年功序列制度the seniority system
- —年次有給休暇annual (paid) leave; annual paid vacation; annual paid holiday
- —厚生年金保険welfare annuity insurance