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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)
絶対年代 ぜったいねんだい

absolute age

相対年代 そうたいねんだい

relative age

七年戦争 しちねんせんそう

Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

十五年戦争 じゅうごねんせんそう

Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

百年戦争 ひゃくねんせんそう

Hundred Years War (1337-1453)

近点年 きんてんねん

anomalistic year

前年比 ぜんねんひ

year on year

式年 しきねん

year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th and 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)

式年祭 しきねんさい

imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)

式年遷宮祭 しきねんせんぐうさい

fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)

新年明けましておめでとうございます しんねんあけましておめでとうございます

Happy New Year

例年になく れいねんになく

unusually (compared to a typical year)

年央 ねんおう

mid-year

一年半 いちねんはん

one year and a half

明治二十七八年戦役 めいじにじゅうしちはちねんせんえき

Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)

個人年金 こじんねんきん

personal pension

あくる年 あくるとし

next year

壮年期 そうねんき

prime of one's life

新年宴会 しんねんえんかい

New Year's party

経年劣化 けいねんれっか

degradation over time