See also: and
U+6B73, 歳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B73

[U+6B72]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6B74]

Translingual edit

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 77, +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一戈竹火 (YMIHF), composition or 𡭕)

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 577, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16326
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1443, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+6B73

Chinese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“Jupiter; year; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. year

Readings edit

Usage notes edit

Often abbreviated to much simpler , for example in 何才 (how old?), or 1才 (1 year old), as opposed to 何歳 (how old?), 1歳 (1 year old). The phrase "twenty years old" (二十歳) uses jukujikun reading and pronounced はたち (hatachi) using the tradition Japanese counter tsu/chi. Similar native-Japanese readings for “thirty years old” and beyond also occur more rarely.

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
とし
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
とし
[noun] (obsolete) grain, particularly rice
[noun] (obsolete) a grain harvest, a grain crop
[noun] a year
[noun] age
[noun] (specifically) used to describe the age of someone who should not do things inappropriate for their age
Alternative spelling
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
さい
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spellings
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese . First attested in Japanese in the early 800s.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Suffix edit

(さい) or (サイ) (-sai

  1. [from early 800s] -year-old
    十四(じゅうよん)(さい)
    jūyon sai
    fourteen years old

References edit

  1. ^ ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten)[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000