歳 — kanji meaning “year-end”
歳
year-end, age, occasion, opportunity
- Meanings
- year-end, age, occasion, opportunity
- On'yomi
- サイ (sai)、セイ (sei)
- Kun'yomi
- とし、とせ、よわい
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #269 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 77
- Chinese reading
- suì
Words with 歳
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 歳月 | さいげつ saigetsu | time; years |
| 万歳 | ばんざい banzai | banzai; hurray; hurrah |
| 歳暮 | せいぼ seibo | year-end gift |
| 歳出 | さいしゅつ saishutsu | annual expenditure (of a state, organization, etc.) |
| 歳入 | さいにゅう sainyuu | annual revenue (government); annual income (government); budget receipts |
| 歳末 | さいまつ saimatsu | year end |
| 歳費 | さいひ saihi | annual expenditure |
| 歳時記 | さいじき saijiki | almanac of seasonal words (for haiku poets) |
| 万歳 | まんざい manzai | door-to-door manzai; form of comedy originally performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai |
| 千歳 | ちとせ chitose | thousand years; millennium; eternity |
| 万々歳 | ばんばんざい banbanzai | matter for great congratulation |
| 当歳 | とうさい tousai | year of birth; this year |
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