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)
On readings
ネン
Kun readings
とし
Variant forms
秊Words with 年
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —性交同意年齢age of consent
- —若年性認知症early-onset dementia; presenile dementia
- —最終事業年度most recent business year
- —少年鑑別所法Juvenile Classification Home Act
- —陸軍幼年学校military preparatory school (for the Imperial Japanese Army)
- —法定耐用年数statutory useful life
- —成年後見制度conservatorship; adult guardianship
- —年末年始休暇end-of-the-year holidays
- —久里浜少年院Kurihama Reform School
- —少年ジャンプShōnen Jump (weekly magazine)
- —世界青年の日World Youth Day; WYD
- —幾年にもわたるextending over a number of years
- —石の上にも三年perseverance prevails; three years on a (cold) stone (will make the stone warm)
- —新年おめでとうHappy New Year
- —桃栗三年柿八年it often takes time for one's actions to bear fruit; planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight
- —定年退職通知書notification for compulsory retirement
- —人生僅か五十年life is short; life is just fifty years
- —確定給付型年金defined-benefit pension
- —確定拠出型年金defined-contribution pension
- —年頭のあいさつNew Year's greetings