Hanja Analyzer
年

年 — nyeon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
해 년
Romanization
nyeon
English
year; new-years; person's age
Mandarin
nián
Japanese on'yomi
ネン, デン, デイ, ニョウ
Japanese kun'yomi
とし
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 1
Newspaper frequency
#6 of 2,500
Strokes
6
Variant forms
秊
Radical
干 (51, 3 residual)
Unicode
U+5E74

Parts that make up 年

  • 丿 삐침 별 왼쪽으로 삐친 획뜻보다 모양을 이루는 획
  • 干 방패 간, 생강 강 갈래진 방패막고 겨루는 일. ‘간·한’ 계열의 소리

How 年 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 年 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 禾, 人.

Korean example words with 年

  • 기년幾年 Korean gloss: 몇 해
  • 단년單年 Korean gloss: 한 해
  • 양년兩年 Korean gloss: 두 해
  • 연내年內 Korean gloss: 올해 안
  • 연수年數 Korean gloss: 해의 수
  • 영년永年 Korean gloss: 긴 세월
  • 적년積年 Korean gloss: 여러 해
  • 하년何年 Korean gloss: 어느 해
  • 생년生年 Korean gloss: 태어난 해
  • 약년弱年 Korean gloss: 젊은 나이
  • 연전年前 Korean gloss: 몇 해 전
  • 예년例年 Korean gloss: 보통의 해

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 年

  • 昨年さくねん last year
  • 前年ぜんねん the preceding year; the previous year; last year
  • 年間ねんかん (period of) a year; during the era (of)
  • 来年らいねん next year
  • 今年ことし this year
  • 年とし year; age; years
  • 少年しょうねん boy; juvenile; child
  • 年齢ねんれい age; years
  • 一昨年おととし year before last
  • 周年しゅうねん whole year; entire year; n-th year anniversary
  • 年金ねんきん annuity; pension
  • 年生ねんせい nth-year student; nth-year pupil

Other hanja read “년”

撚 碾 秊

Other hanja with radical 干

干 平 并 幷 幸 幹

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