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歳

year-end
Stroke count: 13

Readings

On readingサイ、セイ
Kun readingとし、とせ、よわい
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. year-endRtK
    彼は生きて９０歳になった。He lived to be ninety.tatoeba
    彼は十七歳で高校を退学した。He left high school at seventeen.tatoeba
  2. age
    彼は二十歳のときにこの本を書いた。He wrote this book at the age of twenty.tatoeba
  3. occasion
  4. opportunity
  1. ... years old
  2. age (of) ...

Homonyms

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Same reading (さい)
際 · occasion債 · debt再 · re-差異 · difference

Popular Usage

二十歳

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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year end · stop (止) · footprint (止) · one (一) · little (小) · small (小) · march

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 551

Compound words

二十歳はたち
20 years old
千歳飴ちとせあめ
red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals
何歳なんさい
how old; what age
歳月さいげつ
time; years
歳出さいしゅつ
annual expenditure (of a state, organization, etc.)
歳入さいにゅう
annual revenue (government); annual income (government); budget receipts
歳暮せいぼ
year-end gift; end of the year; year end
歳末さいまつ
year end
万歳ばんざい
banzai; hurray; hurrah; hooray; something to cheer about
お歳暮おせいぼ
year-end gift; end of the year; year end
凶歳きょうさい
poor crop year
歳費さいひ
annual expenditure
寅歳とらどし
year of the Tiger
肇歳ちょうさい
beginning of the year
萬歳まんざい
door-to-door manzai
歳未満さいみまん
under ... years of age
歳入歳出さいにゅうさいしゅつ
annual income and expenditure
いい歳をしていいとしをして
(in spite of) being old enough to know better

On Reading Examples

彼は十七歳で高校を退学した。さい
He left high school at seventeen.tatoeba
彼は若く見えるが実は３０歳を越えている。さい
He looks young, but in reality he is past thirty.tatoeba

Additional Examples

彼は十七歳で高校を退学した。
He left high school at seventeen.tatoeba

Stroke Order

13 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 歳

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