年 – Kanji details

Keyword

year

Info

Frequency	Top 100
Type	Kyōiku (1st grade) ?
Kanken	Level 10
Heisig	1114
Readings	ねん (74%) とし (17%) とせ (5%) ぞ (1%)
	どしもあ

Composed of

𠂉

cow head

㐄

almost a year

Mnemonic

Spending almost a year making an elaborate fake cow head — now that's basically a whole year wasted. What are you going to use that fake cow head for anyway, huh?

Used in vocabulary (1002 in total)

年ねん

year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

年とし

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

少しょう年ねん

boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad

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Examples (200 in total)

2012年ねんに世せ界かいが終おわるって本ほん当とう？

Is it true that the world will end in 2012?

2年ねん前まえのことでした。

That was two years ago.

あなたは１９９０年ねんから彼かの女じょを知しっているのですか？

Have you known her since 1990?