年 — kanji meaning “year”
年
year, counter for years
- Meanings
- year, counter for years
- On'yomi
- ネン (nen)
- Kun'yomi
- とし
- Name readings
- ね
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 4
- Newspaper frequency
- #6 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 51
- Chinese reading
- nián — Chinese character page
Words with 年
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今年 | ことし kotoshi | this year |
| 年間 | ねんかん nenkan | (period of) a year |
| 少年 | しょうねん shounen | boy |
| 年齢 | ねんれい nenrei | age; years |
| 年度 | ねんど nendo | fiscal year (usu. April 1 to March 31 in Japan); financial year |
| 年代 | ねんだい nendai | age; era; period |
| 毎年 | まいとし maitoshi | every year; yearly; annually |
| 来年 | らいねん rainen | next year |
| 昨年 | さくねん sakunen | last year |
| 半年 | はんとし hantoshi | half a year; six months |
| 去年 | きょねん kyonen | last year |
| 長年 | ながねん naganen | many years; a long time |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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