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年

JLPT N5 SL1 6 strokes Frequency: #5

Meanings

year

Radicals

干

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 (19 words)

年久しくとしひさしく

for many years

年月日ねんがっぴ

date (year, month and day)

年功序列ねんこうじょれつ

seniority by length of service

年差ねんさ

annual variation

年始ねんし

beginning of the year

年若としわか

young

年初ねんしょ

beginning of the year

all year round

all year round

year-end fair

greeting the New Year (on New Year's Eve)

New Year's postcard

the New Year dawns

yearbook

like an old man

apprentice

New Year's gift

long service

fiscal year

とし (1 words)

年をとるとしをとる

to grow old

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