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
- —年功序列Popularseniority by length of service
- —平年並みPopularsimilar to that of an average year; in line with an average year; normal
- —未成年者Popularminor; underage person
- —国民年金Popularnational pension; government pension system
- —年中無休Popularopen every day of the year; open year-round; operating 365 days a year
- —千九百年代Popularthe 1900s
- —年輩Popular(approximate) age; years; elderly; old; aged; older (than); senior
- —延年longevity
- —加年adding years
- —隔年biennially; every second year; every other year
- —享年age at death
- —凶年bad year; bad harvest
- —後年future years; in (one's) later years
- —次年the next year
- —生年year of a person's birth; age
- —先年former years; formerly; a few years ago
- —千年thousand years; millennium; long time
- —他年some other year; some day
- —多年many years
- —丁年adulthood (i.e. age 20 in Japan); one's majority