| 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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
6 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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:
- ね
- Korean:
- nyeon
Spanish
- año
- edad
Portuguese
- Ano
French
- année
- compteur d'années
| 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 |
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 崖下 【ガイカ】 below a cliff
- 崖上 【ガイジョウ】 cliff top
- 断層崖 【ダンソウガイ】 fault scarp, fault escarpment
- 崎崖 【キガイ】 steepness of a mountain
Kun reading compounds
- 崖 【がけ】 cliff, precipice, precipice, brink of a dangerous situation
- 崖上 【がいじょう】 cliff top
- 財政の崖 【ざいせいのがけ】 fiscal cliff (e.g. potential 2013 US financial crisis), fiscal precipice
- ガラスの崖 【ガラスのがけ】 glass cliff (corporate leadership)
Readings
- Korean:
- ae, eui
Spanish
- acantilado
- precipicio
- despeñadero
Portuguese
French
| 1428 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1737 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1556 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 2862 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1988 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 8180 | Morohashi |
| 1488 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2227 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 841 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 3o8.11 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-8 | SKIP code |
| 2221.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-19-19 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5d16 | Unicode hex code |