年

Meanings

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

Part of speech: noun, counter

Kanji

• 年

  Meanings

  year, counter for years

  On reading

  ネン

  Kun reading

  とし

  Strokes

  6

Example sentences

• カレンダーの日付は１９６４年９月２３日でした。

  The date on the calendar was September 23, 1964.

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• 彼は四年刑期のところを二年で釈放された。

  He was let out after serving just two years of his four-year prison sentence.

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