Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
brush 聿 (⺻)
Parts:
Variants:
beginning
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1943 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 肇国 【チョウコク】 founding of a state
  • 肇歳 【チョウサイ】 beginning of the year

Readings

Japanese names:
とし、 ただし、 はつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhao4
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • comienzo
  • apertura

Portuguese

French

3723 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1968 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2222 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2204 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3474 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1791 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2439 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29228X Morohashi
2799 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4751 New Nelson (John Haig)
2893 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2902 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4m10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-6 SKIP code
3850.7 Four corner code
1-40-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8087 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
stop
Parts:
Variants:
year-end, age, occasion, opportunity
Kun:
としとせよわい
On:
サイセイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
269 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 歳 【サイ】 ... years old, age (of) ...
  • 歳月 【サイゲツ】 time, years
  • 歳歳 【サイサイ】 annual
  • 年年歳歳 【ネンネンサイサイ】 annually, every year, year in year out, from year to year
  • 歳暮 【セイボ】 year-end gift, end of the year, year end

Kun reading compounds

  • 年 【とし】 year, age, years, past one's prime, old age
  • 年取った 【としとった】 old (person), aged
  • いい年 【いいとし】 mature age, advanced age, maturity, age when one is old enough to know better
  • 大年 【おおとし】 New Year's Eve, Jupiter (planet)
  • 年 【とせ】 counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system)
  • 万年 【まんねん】 ten thousand years, eternity, perennial, perpetual
  • 二十歳 【はたとせ】 twenty years

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sui4
Korean:
se

Spanish

  • año
  • edad

Portuguese

  • Fim de ano
  • idade
  • ocasião
  • oportunidade

French

  • fin d'année
  • âge
  • compteur d'années
  • occasion
  • opportunité
1294 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
550 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2434 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1418 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
653 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1995 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
479 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
487 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
703 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1131 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3131 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1605 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2190 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
394 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16326P Morohashi
2490 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2962 New Nelson (John Haig)
512 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
551 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1636 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1259 2001 Kanji
4n9.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-9 SKIP code
2125.3 Four corner code
1-26-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b73 Unicode hex code