| 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 |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1882 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 忌 【キ】 mourning, mourning period, anniversary of one's death
- 忌避 【キヒ】 evasion, avoidance, shirking, recusation (of a judge), taking exception (to a judge), challenge
- 回忌 【カイキ】 death anniversary, anniversary of a person's death
- 七回忌 【シチカイキ】 sixth anniversary of a death
Kun reading compounds
- 忌む 【いむ】 to avoid, to refrain from, to shun, to detest
- 忌むべき 【いむべき】 abominable, detestable
- 忌み 【いみ】 mourning, abstinence, taboo, religious purification, pure, holy
- 忌明け 【いみあけ】 end of mourning period (usu. 49 days)
- 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
- 物忌み 【ものいみ】 purification through fasting and abstinence, confinement to one's house on inauspicious days to avoid misfortune (Onmyōdō practice)
- 忌まわしい 【いまわしい】 abhorrent, abominable, detestable, disgusting, horrid, repugnant, ominous, inauspicious, unlucky
Readings
- Japanese names:
- いまわ
- Korean:
- gi
Spanish
- aborrecer
- detestar
- luto
Portuguese
- luto
- odiar
- detestável
- aniversário de morte
French
- deuil
- détester
- répugnant
- anniversaire du décès
| 1122 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1819 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1463 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1522 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1287 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 462 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1797 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1935 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1697 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 769 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2735 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1401 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1889 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 606 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 10310 | Morohashi |
| 2207 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1786 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 599 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 644 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1121 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3558 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4k3.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-3-4 | SKIP code |
| 1733.1 | Four corner code |
| 1-20-87 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5fcc | Unicode hex code |