Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
mother, do not 毋 (母, ⺟)
Parts:
every
Kun:
ごと-ごと.に
On:
マイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
436 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 毎 【マイ】 every (usu. with events, e.g. every weekend), each
  • 毎朝 【マイアサ】 every morning
  • 毎々 【マイマイ】 each time, frequently, always

Kun reading compounds

  • 毎 【ごと】 each, every
  • 毎に 【ごとに】 one by one, each, every, at intervals of
  • 月ごと 【つきごと】 monthly
  • 戸ごと 【こごと】 every house, each household

Readings

Japanese names:
つね
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mei3
Korean:
mae

Spanish

  • siempre
  • cada
  • en ese momento

Portuguese

  • todo

French

  • chaque
318 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
225 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
206 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
396 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2467 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
92 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
66 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
444 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
116 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
116 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
164 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1144 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2527 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1283 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1751 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
468 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16724P Morohashi
2034 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3006 New Nelson (John Haig)
458 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
497 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
136 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2347 2001 Kanji
0a6.25 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
8050.7 Four corner code
1-43-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bce Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
pestle
Parts:
Variants:
year, counter for years
Kun:
とし
On:
ネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
6 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 年 【ネン】 year, counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school), period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
  • 年会 【ネンカイ】 conference, annual convention
  • 往年 【オウネン】 years gone by, earlier years, former years, the past
  • 平年 【ヘイネン】 non-leap year, average year (for rainfall, temperature, etc.), normal year

Kun reading compounds

  • 年 【とし】 year, age, years, past one's prime, old age
  • 年明け 【としあけ】 beginning of the year, early in the New Year
  • いい年 【いいとし】 mature age, advanced age, maturity, age when one is old enough to know better
  • 御年 【おんとし】 age (esp. advanced)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nian2
Korean:
nyeon

Spanish

  • año
  • edad

Portuguese

  • Ano

French

  • année
  • compteur d'années
126 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
20 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
64 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
3 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
188 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
64 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
51 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
342 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
45 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
45 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
24 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
574 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2528 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1284 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1752 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1045 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9168 Morohashi
2035 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1593 New Nelson (John Haig)
1036 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1114 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
13 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
51 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2355 2001 Kanji
0a6.16 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
4-6-3 SKIP code
8050.0 Four corner code
1-39-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e74 Unicode hex code