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JLPT N5 SL1 6 strokes Frequency: #5

Meanings

year

Radicals

Decomposition

⿻干?

Etymology

Ideographic: A man 干 carrying grain, representing the annual harvest

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 6

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left
2 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
4 vertical top-to-bottom
5 horizontal bottom-to-top
6 vertical right-to-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ネン nen

Used in compound words

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
とし toshi

Standalone

Words Using This Kanji

835 words total
Other (20 words)
年払い ねんばらい

yearly payment

明治十四年の政変 めいじじゅうよねんのせいへん

ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)

年寄衆 としよりしゅう

elder chief of a village or town during Edo Period

中年症候群 ちゅうねんしょうこうぐん

mid-life crisis

青年客気 せいねんかっき

youthful ardor

脳年齢 のうねんれい

mental age

年少客気 ねんしょうかっき

youthful ardor

遺恨十年 いこんじゅうねん

grudge of ten years' standing

年貢の納め時 ねんぐのおさめどき

time to pay the piper

年型 ねんがた

(some year's) model

年暮れ ねんくれ

year end

新年の抱負 しんねんのほうふ

New Year's resolution

良いお年を よいおとしを

have a happy New Year

悪妻は百年の不作 あくさいはひゃくねんのふさく

a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband

年の割に としのわりに

for one's age

年齢相応 ねんれいそうおう

(appropriate for) one's age

若年層 じゃくねんそう

the young

議員年金 ぎいんねんきん

legislators' pension (and retirement benefits)

式年遷宮 しきねんせんぐう

construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time

年寄名跡 としよりみょうせき

official names associated with coaching licenses (105 permanent and heritable, plus those issued to select yokozuna for a single generation)