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数え年

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 数え年.

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Entry

数え年ぞえどしNounFreq #84541
1

East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

number, strength, fate, law, figures

13 strokesFrequency 148JLPT N2Grade 2

On

スウサクソクシュ

Kun

かずかぞ.えるしばしばせ.めるわずらわ.しい

Nanori

じゅ

year, counter for years

6 strokesFrequency 6JLPT N4Grade 1

On

ネン

Kun

とし

Nanori

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