Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

6 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: year, counter for years

Kunyomi: とし

Onyomi: ネン

Composition: 丿

Radical

Radical:

Reading: かん

Meaning: pestle

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

生(いちねんせい)   first-year student

(きょねん)   last year

(らいねん)   next year

(ちゅうねん)   middle age

筆(まんねんひつ)   fountain pen

寄り(おとしより)   elderly person

(ことし)   this year

上(としうえ)   older

(はんとし)   half a year

Onyomi Examples

ネン year, counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school), period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

ネンカイ conference, annual convention

ヘイネン non-leap year, normal year (esp. as pertains to weather patterns, vegetative growth, harvest yields, etc.)

テイネン retirement age, years of service in a military rank before eligibility for promotion

Kunyomi Examples

とし year, age, years, past one's prime, old age

明け としあけ beginning of the year, early in the New Year

いい いいとし mature age, advanced age, maturity, age when one is old enough to know better

おんとし age (esp. advanced)