The kanji 年: meaning, readings and stroke order

年

Meaning: year, age
On reading: ネン nen
Kun reading: とし toshi
Strokes: 6
Radical: 干 pestle
Level: Level 1 · grade 1

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: năm, tuổi (niên)
Japanese: とし。いちねん。
Korean: 해, 나이 (년·연)
Chinese: 年、年龄

Readings, words and example sentences

ネン nen · on reading

一いち年ねん
one year
あと 一いち年ねんで小学生です。
In one more year, I'll be in elementary school.

とし toshi · kun reading

お年とし玉だま
New Year money gift
お正月に お年玉おとしだまをもらいました。
I got a money gift for New Year.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.