Kanji: 年

    • Meaning : year,"counter for years"
    • ON reading : ネン
    • KUN reading : とし
    • Nanori :
    • Stroke count : 6
    • Frequency of use ranking : 6
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • いいをして - いいとしをして - (in spite of) being old enough to know better
  • け - しょうねんよたいしをいだけ - Boys, be ambitious
  • - じんせいわずかごじゅうねん - Life is short
  • - すうねんらい - several years standing/over several years
  • ねてたらず - せいねんかさねてきたらず - Time and tide wait for no man
  • ったが - ここであったがひゃくねんめ - At last your time has come
  • んだえる - しんだこのとしをかぞえる - It is no use crying over spilt milk
  • えない - としはあらそえない - Age will tell
  • うとう - らいねんのことをいうとおにがわらう - Talk about next year and the devil will laugh
  • - しょうだくねんれい - age of consent
  • まれ - 〜ねんうまれ - born in ...
  • - すうじゅうねん - few decades/many decades/several decades
  • - がくねんど - the school year
  • り - いちねんのけいはがんたんにあり - New Year's Day is the key to a successful year
  • つ - としがたつ - The new year opens
  • - ごういねんれい - age of consent
  • まれ - ねんうまれ - born in ...
  • にはてない - よるとしなみにはかてない - Nobody can struggle against advancing age
  • いいして - いいとしして - (in spite of) being old enough to know better
  • - きそねんきんばんごう - universal pension number/common number shared between different pension schemes/basic pension number
  • - ねんきんてちょう - pension book
  • - ねんひづけ - ordinal date
  • 西2000 - せいれき2000ねんもんだい - Year 2000 problem
  • レコーディング - レコーディングねん - year of recording
  • - いどし | いのししどし - year of the boar
  • に - いちねんいないに - within a year
  • - いちねんじゅう - all year round
  • - いっしゅうねん - one full year
  • - いちねんかん - (period of) one year
  • - いちねんそう - annual (plant)
  • - いちりょうねん - (a) year or two
  • - いっかねん - one year
  • - いちねんせい - annual (plant) | first-year university or high-school student (esp. US)/freshman
  • - うさぎどし - year of the hare
  • - うしどし - year of the ox
  • - えんねん - longevity
  • - ながねんかん - long period of time
  • - えつねん - ring out the old year/hibernation
  • - おうねん - former/one-time/years ago
  • - なんねん - what year/how many years
  • - かねんど - past financial year
  • - かねん - adding years
  • - かいけいねんど - fiscal year
  • - がくねん - year in school/grade in school
  • - かくねん - biannually/every second year/every other year
  • - きょうねん - one's age at death
  • - きょうねん - bad year/bad harvest
  • - きゅうねんまつ - end of last year
  • - きょねん | こぞ - last year
  • - きょうがしんねん - Happy New Year!
  • - きんねん - recent years
  • - きんむねんげん - term of service
  • - きんがしんねん - Happy New Year!
  • - けいねんへんか - change over the years/aging/ageing/secular change
  • - けいねん - passing of years/lapse of time/aging/ageing
  • - がんねん - first year (of a specific reign)
  • - してきねんきん - private pension
  • - しんねんえんかい - New Year's banquet (held annually by the emperor on Jan. 5, prior to WWII) | New Year's party
  • - けいねんれっか - degradation over time/time-related deterioration
  • - こうねん - future years/in (one's) later years
  • - ごじゅうねんさい - jubilee/semicentennial
  • - めいじにじゅうしちはちねんせんえき - Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
  • - うまどし - year of the horse
  • | - おとしだま - New Year's gift
  • - こじんねんきん - personal pension
  • - こうせいねんきん - welfare pension
  • くる - あくるとし - next year
  • - いちねんはん - one year and a half
  • - こうねん - light year
  • - そうねんき - prime of one's life | stage of maturity (geology)
  • - こうねんき - menopause/change of life
  • - こうきねんど - numbering of years since Jimmu
  • く | になく - れいねんになく - unusually (compared to a typical year)
  • けましておめでとうございます | けましておめでとういます - しんねんあけましておめでとうございます - Happy New Year
  • - ねんおう - mid-year
  • - しきねん - year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)
  • - さくねん - last year
  • - さらいねん - year after next
  • - しきねんさい - imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)
  • がいもなく - としがいもなく - unbecoming to one's age
  • - ねずみどし - year of the rat
  • - さんじゅうねんせんそう - the Thirty Years' War
  • った | のいった | った - としのいった - older/elderly
  • がいもない - としがいもない - thoughtless for one's age/unworthy of one's years
  • - じぎょうねんど - fiscal year
  • - しきねんせんぐうさい - fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
  • - じねん - the next year
  • - しちねんき - seventh anniversary of a death
  • - じゃくねんがた - juvenile
  • - ぜんねんひ - year on year/on the previous year
  • - しゅうぎょうねんげん - length of the course of study
  • - しゅうがくねんれい - school age
  • - しゅうねん - whole year/anniversary
  • - じゅうねんいちじつ | じゅうねんいちにち - without intermission for ten (long) years/with constancy of purpose for ten (long) years/in the same old rut for years on end
  • - きんてんねん - anomalistic year
  • - できどし - fruitful year
  • - しょうねんかんかいん - reform school
  • - しょうねんはんざい - juvenile crime/juvenile delinquency
  • - しょうねん - boys/juveniles
  • - しょうねんしょうじょ - boys and girls
  • - しょうねんぶんがく - juvenile literature
  • - しょうわねんかん - Showa era
  • - じゅうごねんせんそう - Fifteen Years' War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)
  • - しょうねんかい - junior society
  • - しょうねんだん - Boy Scouts
  • - しょうねんろうどう - child labor/child labour
  • - しちねんせんそう - Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
  • - しょうねんいん - reform school
  • - しょうねんしんぱんじょ | しょうねんしんぱんしょ - juvenile court
  • - しょうねんほう - juvenile law
  • | - とせ - counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system)
  • - しんねんかい - New Year's party
  • | - はたとせ - twenty years
  • - ちしつねんだい - geological time
  • - ほうしゃねんだい - radiometric age
  • - しんねん - New Year
  • さる | - さるどし - year of the monkey
  • - ひゃくねんせんそう - Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
  • - たねんせい - perennial (plant)
  • - さいしゅうがくねん - last year of school
  • - ぜったいねんだい - absolute age
  • - すうおくねん - several hundred million years
  • - すうねん - several years
  • - せいねん - adult age/majority
  • - せいたんひゃくねん - 100th birthday anniversary
  • - せいねん - the year of a person's birth/age
  • - せいねん - youth/young man
  • - せいねんがっぴ - birth date
  • - そうたいねんだい - relative age
  • - せいしょうねん - youth/young person
  • | - ちとせ | せんねん - millennium/one thousand years
  • - せんねん - former years/formerly/a few years ago
  • - せんねんき - millennium
  • - オツネンチョウ | おつねんちょう - eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)
  • - せんねんかん - thousand-year period
  • - ぜんねんど - preceding fiscal year
  • - ぜんねん - the preceding year/the previous year/last year
  • - たねんそう - perennial plant
  • - そうねん - prime of life
  • - ほうていねんれい - legal age
  • - たねんせいしょくぶつ - perennial plant
  • - たねん - some other year/some day
  • - たねん - many years
  • - たつどし - year of the dragon
  • | - ながねん | えいねん - long time/many years
  • - ちゅうねん - middle-age/middle age/midlife/one's middle years
  • - ちゅうどしま - woman approaching middle age
  • - ていねんしゃ - adult
  • - ていがくねん - lower grades in school
  • - ちゅうねんもの - middle-aged person/person who changes his line in middle of life
  • - ていねん - adulthood (i.e. age 20 in Japan)/one's majority
  • いやすくりがたし | し - しょうねんおいやすくがくなりがたし - Youthful years pass quickly before one accomplishes much learning
  • - ほうしゃせいたんそねんだいそくてい - radiocarbon dating/carbon-14 dating
  • | - ていねん - retirement age | years of service in a military rank before eligibility for promotion
  • - じゅくねんふうふ - middle-aged couple/middle-aged husband & wife
  • | のころ - としのころ - approximate age/age range
  • - としそうおう - appropriateness for one's age
  • 退 - ていねんたいしょくつうちしょ - notification for compulsory retirement
  • - おないどし - of the same age
  • - どうねんぱいのひと - contemporary/person of the same age
  • - おなじどし | おなじとし - same age
  • - どうがくねん - same year in school
  • - どうねん - that year/same year/same age
  • - どうねんぱい - persons of the same age
  • - としまびじん - woman of mature beauty
  • - とりどし - year of the cock
  • - とらどし - year of the tiger
  • がら - ねんがらねんじゅう - all year round/year after year
  • - としのこう - old-man's wisdom
  • れ - としのくれ - year end
  • る | る - としをとる - to grow old/to age
  • - としした - younger/junior
  • - ねんがはがき - New Year's postcard
  • り - としまわり - age relationship/luck attending age
  • り - ねんわり - annual rate
  • - ねんかんしゅうえき - yearly revenue
  • - としよりやく - senior's role
  • - ねんきもの - apprentice
  • - ねんきゅう - annual salary
  • - ねんがっぴ - date
  • - ねんこうかほう - long service allowance/longevity pay
  • - ねんぐ - annual tribute/land tax
  • - としごろひごろ - these days
  • - ねんさん - annual production
  • - としご - child born within a year of another/children born in consecutive years
  • い - としわかい - young/youthful
  • - ねんしょ - beginning of the year/New Year's greetings
  • - としかさ - senior/older/elderly
  • - ねんぜい - annual tax
  • - ねんだいき - annals/chronicle/chronology
  • - ねんじゅう - whole year/always/everyday
  • - ねんちょうしゃ - a senior/elderly people
  • - としなみ - old age/oncoming age
  • - ねんぷ - annual installment/annual instalment
  • れる - としくれる - the year ends
  • ごとに | に - としごとに - annually/every year
  • - ねんらい - for some years
  • - ねんれい - New Year's greetings
  • にあり - いちねんのけいはがんたんにあり - the whole year's plans are made on New Year's Day/when doing something start with the plan
  • る - としがよる - to grow old
  • - としのいち - year-end fair
  • り | ぶり - ねんぶり - after an interval of ... years/for the first time in ... years
  • う - としをひろう - to grow old
  • - ねんが - New Year's greetings/New Year's card
  • - ねんかい - conference/annual convention
  • まる - としあらたまる - the New Year dawns
  • - ねんかん - annual publication/year of publication
  • - としよりご - child of one's age
  • る - としよる - to grow old
  • - ねんきぼうこう - apprenticeship/indenture
  • い - としづよい - child born in first half of the year
  • - ねんげん - length of time/term
  • - ねんこうじょれつ - seniority by length of service
  • - ねんぐまい - annual rice tax
  • - ねんさ - annual variation
  • - ねんさんがく - annual production
  • - ねんじ - annual | fiscal year/school year | year (in some sequence)
  • - としよわ - child born in last half of the year
  • - ねんしょう - youth
  • - ねんすう - number of years
  • - ねんそ - annual tax
  • - ねんだいじゅん - chronological order
  • - ねんじゅうぎょうじ | ねんちゅうぎょうじ - annual functions or events
  • - ねんど - year/fiscal year/school year/term
  • | - ねんぱい - elderly/age/years
  • - ねんぶん - yearly amount
  • - ねんぽう - annual salary
  • - ねんまつ - end-of-year
  • - ねんり - annual interest rate
  • - ねんれいさ - age difference
  • - としがとし - considering this age
  • | - としのせ - New Year's Eve/the year end
  • までに - ねんまでに - before the year ...
  • - ねんえき - annual profit
  • - ねんがじょう - New Year's card
  • - ねんかいひ - annual fee
  • - ねんがく - yearly amount
  • - ねんかん - yearbook/almanac/annual
  • い - としよりくさい - slovenly like an old man
  • - ねんき - death anniversary/Buddhist anniversary service
  • け - ねんきあけ - expiration of a term of service
  • - としだま - New Year's gift
  • - ねんご - years later
  • - ねんこうせいど - seniority rule
  • - ねんごう - name of an era/year number
  • - ねんさい - anniversary
  • にも - いしのうえにもさんねん - perseverance prevails (lit: even the coldest rock will get warm if sat on for three years)
  • - ていねんりこん - divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband)
  • | - とし - year | age
  • - ねんがねんじゅう - all year round/year after year
  • - としのまめ - beans of the bean-scattering ceremony
  • す - としをこす - to enter a new year
  • し - としこし - New Year's Eve/end of the year
  • 便 - ねんがゆうびん - New Year's mail
  • - ねんかい - anniversary service (in Buddhism)
  • け - としがけ - yearly payment
  • - ねんかん - year (period of)
  • みた - としよりじみた - characteristic of the aging (ageing)
  • | - ねんき - term of service/apprenticeship
  • しく - としひさしく - for many years/anciently
  • - ねんきん - annuity/pension
  • - ねんこう - long service
  • もない | い - としがいもない - unbecoming/unsuitable/wrong for one's age/disgraceful
  • - としごろ - approximate age/apparent age | marriageable age (esp. of a woman)/age of independence/age of adulthood | (after modifying phrase) appropriate age (to ...)/old enough (to ...) | for some years
  • り - としまつり - annual festival
  • - ねんしじょう - New Year's card
  • - としわか - young/youthful
  • - ねんしゅう - annual income
  • - としうえ - older/senior
  • り - としざかり - prime of life
  • - ねんだい - age/era/period/date
  • - としおとこ - Man of the Year, referring to a man born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year
  • - ねんちょう - seniority
  • に - ねんないに - within the year/before the year is out
  • - ねんぷ - chronological record
  • - ねんぽ - beginning of the year
  • れ - としわすれ - year-end drinking party
  • ける - としあける - the New Year dawns
  • - ねんりんしがく - dendrochronology
  • いる - としおいる - to grow old
  • - ねんし - New Year's call/beginning of the year/New Year's greetings
  • - ねんじほうこく - chronological report/chronicle
  • る | る - としとる - to grow old/to age
  • - ねんしょうしゃ - youth/minor/young people
  • - ねんせい - pupil in ... year/student in ... year
  • - としま - mature woman/middle-aged woman
  • | - としは | ねんし - age/years (old)
  • - ねんじゅうしつげん - always saying the wrong thing
  • - ねんない - by the end of the year
  • - ねんびゃくねんじゅう - throughout the year/all the year round/always
  • - ねんべつ - by years
  • - ねんぽう - annual report/yearbook
  • け - ねんあけ | としあけ - beginning of the year/early in the new year | expiration of a term of service
  • - ねんりん - annual tree ring
  • - ねんれいそう - age range/age-group
  • - ももくりさんねんかきはちねん - it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions (lit: planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years to bear fruit, plums take eight)
  • - ねんれいさべつ - age discrimination/agism
  • - としよりみょうせき - (sumo) any of the 105 family names available to professional sumo coaches
  • に - はんねんごとに - semiannually
  • - てんぽうねんかん - Tempou era (1830.12.10-1844.12.2)
  • おめでとう - しんねんおめでとう - happy new year
  • - ちゅうこうねんしゃ - the middle-aged and the elderly
  • - はんかねん - half a year
  • - ばんねん - (one's) last years
  • おめでとうございます - しんねんおめでとうございます - happy new year
  • - びしょうねん - handsome youth
  • - ひゃくねんさい - centenary/centennial celebration
  • - じゅくねんりこん - divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (often brought on by retirement of the husband)
  • 2000 - にせんねんもんだいたいおう - Y2K compliant
  • - しきねんせんぐう - construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time
  • いおを - よいおとしを - Have a good New Year
  • - あくさいはひゃくねんのふさく - a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband/a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
  • - ふりょうしょうねん - juvenile delinquent
  • - ぎいんねんきん - legislators' pension (and retirement benefits)
  • 2000 - にせんねんたいおう - Y2K compliant
  • に | のわりに | に - としのわりに - for one's age
  • - ねんれいそうおう - (appropriate for) one's age
  • - じゃくねんそう - the young
  • - へいねん - non-leap year | normal year (esp. as pertains to weather patterns, vegetative growth, harvest yields, etc.)
  • - へいねんさく - normal crop
  • - ねんがた - (some year's) model
  • れ - ねんくれ - year end
  • - しんねんのほうふ - New Year's resolution
  • み - へいねんなみ - average year/normal year
  • - ほうねん - fruitful year
  • ヒトラー - ヒトラーせいねんたい - Hitler Youth
  • - ぼうねんかい - year-end party
  • - ねんぐのおさめどき - time to pay the piper/lit: time to pay the land tax (in kind)
  • - まつねん - the last days/the final years/the last generation
  • - まんねん - ten thousand years | eternity
  • - まんねんゆき - perpetual snow
  • - みせいねんしゃ - minor/person not grown up
  • - まんねんしんぞう - woman of perennial youth
  • - まんいちねん - one full year
  • - みどし | へびどし - year of the snake
  • - ぼうねん - forgetting the hardships of the old year
  • - ぼつねん - one's age at death
  • - ほんねん - this (current) year
  • - ねんしょうかっき - youthful ardor/rash impulse of an inexperienced youth
  • - まんねんどこ - leaving a bed unmade
  • - いこんじゅうねん - grudge of ten years' standing/harbouring a grudge for many years
  • - ひつじどし - year of the sheep
  • - まんねんこうほ - ever unsuccessful candidate/persistent candidate
  • - まんねんひつ - fountain pen
  • - みていねん - below adult age/one's minority
  • - のうねんれい - mental age
  • - としよりしゅう - elder chief of a village or town during Edo Period
  • - せいねんかっき - youthful ardor/rash impulse of an inexperienced youth
  • い - ねんばらい - yearly payment/annual payment
  • - めいじじゅうよねんのせいへん - the failed Meiji-14 coup of 1881
  • - ねんめ - -th year (11th year, 2nd year, 3rd year, etc.)
  • - やくどし - unlucky year/critical age
  • - ようねん - childhood/infancy
  • - らいねん - next year
  • - ちゅうねんしょうこうぐん - mid-life crisis
  • - れいねん - average (normal, ordinary) year/every year/annually
  • - よくねん | よくとし - following year
  • - ようろうねんきん - old age pension
  • - くるとし - the coming year
  • - れいねんさい - annual festival
  • | - れきねんれい - chronological age
  • - いぬどし - year of the dog
  • - しねんごう - era name selected by commoners (as opposed to the imperial court)
  • - れきねんど - calendar year
  • - つるはせんねんかめはまんねん - Cranes live for 1000 years, turtles live for 10,000 years
  • - たいぜんねんひ - relative change from last year
  • - いちねん | ひととし | ひととせ - one year/some time ago
  • | おと - いっさくねん | おととし - year before last
  • - ねん - year (e.g. AD) | counter for years
  • | オオカミ - おおかみしょうねん | オオカミしょうねん - boy who cried wolf
  • - しゅっしょうねんがっぴ | しゅっせいねんがっぴ - date of birth
  • | 々 - ねんねん | としどし - years/year by year/annually/considering his age
  • | - はっせんねん | やちとせ - 8000 years/thousands of years/eternity
  • - きゅうねん | ふるとし - the old year/last year
  • - ことし | こんねん - this year
  • - じゃくねんしゃ | じゃくねんもの - youngster
  • - ねんぴょう | えんぴょう - chronological tables/chronology
  • - まいとし | まいねん - every year/yearly/annually
  • - としつき | ねんげつ - months and years
  • - はんとし | はんねん - half year
  • - ねんとう | としがしら - the oldest person | beginning of the year
  • | | - あゆ | こうぎょ | ねんぎょ | あい - sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis) | salmon
  • うるう | - うるうどし | じゅんねん - leap year
  • | - じゃくねん - youth
  • - としおんな - Woman of the Year, referring to a woman born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year
  • | - ねんぱいしゃ - elderly person
  • | い - としおい - old person
  • | 々 - ねんねんさいさい - annually/every year/year in year out/from year to year
  • - しょうがいねんきん - disability pension/invalid pension
  • | より | り - としより - old people/the aged | sumo coaches
  • | - ねんれい - age/years
  • もいかぬ | かぬ - としはもいかぬ - of tender years/very young
  • | - れきねん - calendar year/civil year/time/year after year
  • った - としとった - aged
  • | - みせいねん - minor/not of age
  • - みょうねん - next year
  • - りゅうねん - repeating the same class (school)/staying more than two years in the same class
  • - さくねんなつ - summer of last year
  • - ひゃくねんかせい - waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear/waiting in vain for an unlikely event/waiting for pigs to fly/When the sky falls, we shall catch larks
  • - まんねんせいねん - man of perennial youth/man who never loses his youthful vigor
  • - いちねんまえ - one year ago
  • - ちくねん - annually/year by year
  • 2000み - にせんねんもんだいたいさくずみ - Y2K compliant
  • もいかない | かない - としはもいかない - of tender years/very young
  • - ねんまつねんし - the New Year's holiday/the period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the new year
  • - せんねんいちじつ - without intermission for many years/with constancy of purpose for many years/in the same old rut for years on end
  • 2000 - にせんねんもんだい - Y2K bug/year 2000 problem
  • - みみどしま - young woman with a lot of superficial knowledge about sex, etc.
  • | 々 - さいさいねんねん - annually/every year/year in and year out/from year to year
  • - ねんしょうきえい - being young and spirited/being young and full of go
  • - せいねんき - adolescence
  • - せきねん - (many) years
  • - ろうねん - old age
  • - ふりょうろうねん - old sinner/elderly man-about-town/older person who enjoys free and easy lifestyle unfettered by social taboos
  • - いくねん | いくとせ - number of years
  • - まんねんせい | おもと - Japanese rhodea (plant of the lily family)/Rhodea japonica
  • | - さきおととし | さおととし | さいととし | いっさくさくねん - two years before last (year)/three years back (ago)
  • め - ねんどはじめ - beginning of the (fiscal) year
  • - みょうごねん | さらいねん - year after next
  • - いちねんゆうはん - one year and a half
  • - せきねん - old times/antiquity/former years
  • - こうがくねん - upper grade or classes (in schools)
  • - こうねん | ぎょうねん - age at one's death
  • - なんまんねん - tens of thousands of years
  • - こんねんど - this year
  • - かくねん | きゃくねん - last year
  • - こくみんねんきん - national pension/government pension system
  • - さくねんらい - since last year
  • - さくねんど - previous fiscal year
  • - ほうねんまんさく - bumper crops/year of a full rice harvest
  • - たいようねん - solar year
  • - いちねんごと - every (one) year
  • | - としかっこう - one's age
  • - こうてきねんきん - public pension
  • り | - いちだいとしより - special sumo coaching stock awarded to retired grand champion
  • - まくうちじゅうねん - 10 year career in highest sumo division is enough for anyone
  • - いぞくねんきん - survivor's pension or annuity
  • - まんねんたけ - bracket fungus (Ganoderma lucidum - formerly Fomes japonicus)
  • り - ひらどしより - sumo coach without a special assignment within the Sumo Association
  • - せいねんのいえ - training and accommodation institution for young men
  • - ひこうしょうねん - juvenile delinquent
  • - ながねんのゆめ - long-cherished dream
  • - しょねんど - first year/initial (year)
  • - らいねんど - next year/next fiscal year
  • - ちゅうこうねん - middle and old age
  • - としよりかぶ - sumo coaching license stock (licence)
  • り | - じゅんとしより - temporary sumo coaching status for retired wrestler
  • - ひゃくねん - century/hundred years
  • - しゅうしんねんきん - a life pension or annuity
  • - ねんどまつ - end of the fiscal year
  • - ひゃくねんめ - the hundredth year/doomed
  • - さいねんちょう - eldest
  • - じゅくねん - mature in age and wisdom/middle-aged
  • - かぞえどし - old manner of reckoning one's age, newborns being considered a year old, with everyone adding one year to their age at New Year's
  • - なんねんせい - what grade (in school)
  • - さいねんしょう - youngest
  • - どうねんだい - the same generation/coeval
  • - ねんじゅうむきゅう - open every day of the year
  • - としごと - every year/year by year
  • - ねんきぼうこう - apprenticeship
  • - ねんきんしょうしょ - annuity bond
  • - ねんかんけいかく - year's plan
  • - なんねんかん - many years
  • - にねんせいしょくぶつ - biennial plant
  • 調 - ねんまつちょうせい - year-end tax adjustment
  • - ねんじゆうきゅうきゅうか - annual paid vacation
  • り - ねんしまわり - New Year's calls
  • - ねんきんききん - pension fund
  • - ねんとうきょうしょ - State of the Union Address (USA)
  • - へんねんたい - chronological order
  • - へんねんし - a chronicle
  • - いちねんせいしょくぶつ - an annual (plant)
  • 尿 - じゃくねんがたとうにょうびょう - juvenile onset diabetes
  • - としがい - one's age
  • - ねんよ - more than a year
  • - ねんきんほけん - annuity insurance
  • - としづよ - being older or a senior/the first half of the year
  • - にねんそう - biennial plant
  • - ねんこうじょれつせいど - the seniority system
  • - ねんしき - model year (of an automobile, etc.)
  • - ねんきんじゅきゅうしゃ - a pensioner
  • - ねんりつ - annual rate (of interest)
  • - ねんれいきゅう - salary based on age
  • - じゅうねんひとむかし - expression suggesting that the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history
  • - ゆうきねんきん - fixed-term annuity
  • 便 - ゆうびんねんきん - postal annuity
  • より - かめのこうよりとしのこう - The older, the wiser
  • - るいねん - successive years
  • - せいねんだん - young persons' association
  • - しょうねんあいしこう - pedophilia
  • - せいしょうねんはんざい - youth crime
  • - つうねん - all year/year round
  • - せいねんかい - young persons' association
  • - せいしんねんれい - a person's mental age
  • - きぎょうねんきんせいど - corporate pension plan
  • - いりょうしょうねんいん - medical reformatory
  • り - わかどしより - young person acting like an old person
  • - せいねんしき - coming-of-age celebration
  • - こうせいねん - a sidereal year
  • - せいねん - prime of life
  • - かくていきょしゅつねんきん - defined contribution pension plan
  • 退 - たいしょくねんきん - (retirement) pension
  • - とうけいねんかん - statistical yearbook
  • 退 - ていねんたいしょく - retirement due to age
  • - れんねん - every year/year after year
  • - ぼしねんきん - allowance for fatherless families
  • - とうねん - the present year/at that time
  • たり - あたりどし - good or lucky year
  • - しょねん - first year/early years (of a reign or era)
  • - しょねんへい - new or raw recruit
  • - おおどしま - woman well past her prime/matron well-advanced in age
  • - しょうねんかんべつしょ - juvenile detention centre/juvenile detention center/juvenile detention home
  • - ねんきゅう - yearly paid vacation (holiday)
  • - まんねんれい - age
  • - さんねん - three years
  • - こうねんきしょうがい - menopausal disorders
  • - えつねんせいしょくぶつ - biennial plant
  • - こうねん - old age
  • - ようねんじだい - childhood
  • - ぶんがくせいねん - young literary enthusiast
  • - ようねんき - childhood
  • - こうねんしゃ - elderly person
  • - じゅうねん - ten years/decade
  • - たいようねんすう - (machine's) service life
  • - ねんしょう - yearly (annual) turnover
  • - ねんだいもの - antique
  • - ねんれいせいげん - age limit(s)
  • - しんねんごう - New Year issue
  • - せいぞうねんがっぴ - date of manufacture
  • - せいぼつねん - dates of birth and death
  • - よねんせい - student in his (her) fourth year/fourth-year student
  • - きぎょうねんきん - company pension
  • - すいていねんれい - estimated (probable) age (e.g. of victim)
  • - ねんじそうかい - annual general meeting/AGM
  • - いいとし - old enough
  • - こうせいねんきんほけん - welfare annuity insurance
  • - ていねんせい - age-limit system
  • - ねんきんせいど - pension system (scheme)
  • - よくよくねん - two years later/year after next
  • - せいねんしゃ - adult/person of full age
  • - せいねんじだい - (one's) youth/one's younger days
  • 退 - ていねんたいしょく - (compulsory) retirement (e.g. on reaching the age of 60)
  • - ろうれいねんきん - old-age pension
  • ける - としたける - to grow old
  • - しふくせんねん - millennium
  • - いちねんせいそうほん - annual herb
  • り - いっさくねんあたり - the year before last or thereabouts
  • にもる - いくねんにもわたる - to extend over so many years
  • - まるいちねん - the whole year/all the year
  • - にねんせい - biennial/second-year university or high-school student (US)/sophomore
  • - うしのとし - Year of the Ox
  • - がくねんまつ - end of school year
  • - えつねんそうほん - biennial herb
  • - かせいねん - Martian year
  • - こっかひゃくねんのけい - permanent national policy
  • - やくはんねん - approximately half a year
  • - きねんさい | としごいのまつり - prayer service for a good crop
  • - さくねんどのそつ - graduated last year
  • - せいねんはい - young people
  • - ほんねんど - the current fiscal year
  • えた - むいについえたとしつき - years spent idly
  • - すうねんかん - several years
  • - せんきゅうひゃくねんだい - the 1900s
  • - せんねんき - millennium
  • - じねんど - next (fiscal) year
  • 寿 - しんねんのことぶき - New Years greetings
  • - ねんれいじゅん - by priority of age
  • ぐ - ねんまつをしのぐ - to pull through the year end
  • - たつのとし - the year of the Dragon
  • | まで - ねんまつまで - before the end of this year
  • える - ねんれいをまんでかぞえる - to count age in full
  • んだ - としでかすんだめ - eyes dimmed with age
  • - ふねんぴょう - appendix with chronological table
  • - なりどし - year of large crop
  • - みょうねんど - next (fiscal) year
  • - ねんにいちど - once a year