年

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Pronunciation 3.1.2 Noun 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Pronunciation 3.2.2 Suffix 3.2.3 Pronunciation 3.2.4 Suffix 3.2.5 Counter 3.2.5.1 Compounds 3.2.6 Kanji 3.2.6.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 4.2 Counter 4.2.1 Compounds 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

The older form of 年, 秊, is a combination of 禾, which means grain or rice and the phonetic element 千, which indicates extension. The meaning went from person wading through crops in harvesting to harvest and then to year because of the harvest after a long cycle.

[edit] Han character

年 (radical 51 干+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人手 (OQ), four-corner 8050₀)

1. year
2. new year
3. person's age

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 340, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9168
• Dae Jaweon: page 648, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 37, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5E74

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

年 (Yale nin4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

/to₂si/ > /tosi/.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [toçi]

[edit] Noun

年 (hiragana とし, romaji toshi)

1. a year
2. age

[edit] Etymology 2

/to₂se/ > /tose/.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [tose]

[edit] Suffix

年 (hiragana とせ, romaji tose)

1. used in counting years; years

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [nen]

[edit] Suffix

年 (hiragana ねん, romaji nen)

1. a grade
   • 彼は中学２年だ。

   かれはちゅうがくにねんだ。

   kare wa chūgaku ni nen da

   He's in the second grade in junior high school.

2. a year
   • ２００８年に橋を建設し始めるようだ。

   にせんはちねんにはしをけんせつしはじめるようだ。

   ni sen hachi nen ni hashi wo kensetsushi hajimeru yōda

   They seem to be going to start constructing the bridge in (the year) 2008.

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年 (hiragana ねん, romaji nen)

1. years (duration)

[edit] Compounds

年月日 (ねんがっぴ, nengappi): date 年号 (ねんごう, nengō): 年次 (ねんじ, ninji): 年数 (ねんすう, nensū): 年度 (ねんど, nendo): 年輪 (ねんりん, nenrin): 年齢 (ねんれい, nenrei):

閏年 (うるうどし, urūdoshi): leap year 学年 (がくねん, gakunen): year in school 元年 (がんねん, gannen): 去年 (きょねん, kyonen): last year 今年 (ことし, kotoshi): this year 新年 (しんねん, shinnen): New Year 来年 (らいねん, rainen): next year

[edit] Kanji

年 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: ねん (nen)
• Kun: とし (toshi), みのる (minoru), よわい (yowai)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

年
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 년(연) (revised: nyeon(yeon), McCune-Reischauer: nyŏn(yŏn), Yale: nyen(ⁿyen))

• Name (hangeul): 해 (revised: hae, McCune-Reischauer: hae, Yale: hay)

1. year

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年

1. year

[edit] Compounds

• 閏年 (윤년, yunnyeon)
• 學年 (학년, haknyeon)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

年 (pinyin nián (nian2), Wade-Giles nien²)

[edit] Compounds

• 闰年 (runnian)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

年 (niên, nên, năm)