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
- —幾年にも渡るextending over a number of years
- —幾年にも亘るextending over a number of years
- —幾年にも亙るextending over a number of years
- —オオカミ少年boy raised by wolves; boy who cried wolf
- —年貢の収め時time to pay the piper; time to pay the land tax (in kind)
- —年頭あいさつNew Year's greetings
- —失われた十年lost decade (esp. of Japan, 1992-2002); decade of economic stagnation
- —年がら年じゅうall year round; all the time; year in and year out
- —年貢の納めどきtime to pay the piper; time to pay the land tax (in kind)
- —失われた二十年lost twenty years; first two decades of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991
- —失われた三十年lost thirty years; lost decades; period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991
- —年貢のおさめどきtime to pay the piper; time to pay the land tax (in kind)
- —一年の計は元旦に在りthe whole year's plans should be made on New Year's Day
- —ここで逢ったが百年目at last your time has come; I have found you at last
- —此処で会ったが百年目at last your time has come; I have found you at last
- —此処で逢ったが百年目at last your time has come; I have found you at last
- —来年の事を言うと鬼が笑うnobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh
- —少年老いやすく学成りがたしstudy hard while you are young; boys grow old easily but getting learned is harder
- —少年老いやすく学なりがたしstudy hard while you are young; boys grow old easily but getting learned is harder
- —新年明けましておめでとう御座いますHappy New Year