Kanji

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:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: とめる

Meaning: stop

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

末(さいまつ)   end of the year

月(さいげつ)   time, years

費(さいひ)   annual expenditure

入(さいにゅう)   annual revenue or income

出(さいしゅつ)   annual expenditure

(いっさい)   one-year-old

(なんさい)   how old?, what age?

(ばんざい)   banzai! (cheer)

暮(おせいぼ)   year-end, year-end present

*二十(はたち)   twenty years old

Onyomi Examples

サイ -years-old

サイゲツ time, years

サイサイ annual

年年 ネンネンサイサイ annually, every year, year in year out, from year to year

セイボ year-end gift, end of the year, year end

Kunyomi Examples

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)

とせ counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system)

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

二十 はたとせ twenty years