Jisho

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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

9 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
pick up, gather, find, go on foot, ten
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1479 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 収集 【シュウシュウ】 collecting, accumulating, gathering, collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.), garbage collection, waste collection
  • 拾得 【シュウトク】 finding (lost property), picking up
  • 十 【ジュウ】 ten, 10, ten years of age, book containing a collection of poems
  • 十一 【ジュウイチ】 eleven, 11, jack

Kun reading compounds

  • 拾う 【ひろう】 to pick up, to gather, to find (and pick up; something someone has dropped), to select, to choose, to pick out, to get (unexpectedly), to hit upon (luck, an opportunity, etc.), to snatch (an unexpected victory), to pull off, to pick up (someone in a car), to flag down (a taxi), to hail, to pick up (a signal, sound, interference, etc.), to (just manage to) return (the ball), to return (a difficult shot), to take on (someone in adverse circumstances), to employ, to give a job, to take in, to walk, to go on foot

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shi2, she4
Korean:
seub, sib

Spanish

  • recoger
  • colectar

Portuguese

  • pegar
  • juntar
  • achado
  • continuar a pé

French

  • ramasser
  • cueillir
  • trouver
  • aller à pied
  • 10 (X)
425 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
321 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
305 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1599 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1901 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
625 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
568 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
802 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1445 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1538 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
273 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
890 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
454 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
279 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
339 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
674 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12014 Morohashi
379 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2149 New Nelson (John Haig)
667 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
720 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
329 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1377 2001 Kanji
3c6.14 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
5806.1 Four corner code
1-29-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
62fe Unicode hex code