Meanings
year
Radicals
Decomposition
⿻干?
Etymology
Ideographic: A man 干 carrying grain, representing the annual harvest
Writing Practice
Stroke Order
Used in compound words
Standalone
Words Using This Kanji
835 words totalabsolute age
relative age
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
anomalistic year
year on year
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)
imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)
fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
Happy New Year
unusually (compared to a typical year)
mid-year
one year and a half
Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
personal pension
next year
prime of one's life
New Year's party
degradation over time