Translingual

Han character

歳 (radical 77 止+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一戈竹火 (YMIHF), composition ⿱止⿵戌小)

1. year
2. age
3. harvest

References

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

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 歲)

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Readings

• Goon: さい (sai)
• Kan’on: せい (sei)
• Kun: とし (toshi), よわい (yowai)

Usage notes

Often abbreviated to much simpler 才, 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).

Noun

歳 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 歲, hiragana とし, romaji toshi)

1. a year (or years) of age
   • 歳を取る
2. age

Synonyms

• 年

Suffix

歳 ‎(hiragana さい, katakana サイ, romaji -sai)

1. -year-old

Synonyms

• 才