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Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N3

269 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 13

Meaning: year-end, age, occasion, opportunity

Kunyomi: とし, とせ, よわい

Onyomi: サイ, セイ

Composition: 止 戌 小 一

歳

Radical

Radical: 止

Reading: とめる

Meaning: stop

Strokes: 4

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Examples

Examples with audio

歳末(さいまつ)   end of the year

歳月(さいげつ)   time, years

歳費(さいひ)   annual expenditure

歳入(さいにゅう)   annual revenue or income

歳出(さいしゅつ)   annual expenditure

一歳(いっさい)   one-year-old

何歳(なんさい)   how old?, what age?

万歳(ばんざい)   banzai! (cheer)

お歳暮(おせいぼ)   year-end, year-end present

*二十歳(はたち)   twenty years old

Onyomi Examples

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

Kunyomi Examples

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

万年 (まんねん) ten thousand years, eternity, perennial, perpetual

二十歳 (はたとせ) twenty years

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