漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
歳: year-end, age
Also: occasion, opportunity
JLPT N313 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 止stop(meaning)
- 戌(form)
- 小small(form)
止 carries the meaning · 戌 and 小 are drawn in
13 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
サイsai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 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)
セイsei · on'yomi
- お歳暮おせいぼyear-end, year-end present
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 二十歳はたちtwenty years old
Also read とし, とせ, よわい, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stop right there! See the foot planted firmly on the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
戌
Also built on 戌
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side歳 year-end · 止 + 小
vs滅 destroy · 氵 + 火In ChineseSimplified 岁 · traditional, as in Japanese · suì
Japan keeps the traditional form 歳; mainland China simplifies it to 岁.
- Simplified
- 岁 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 歳 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin suì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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