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Translingual
Han character
歳 (Kangxi radical 77, 止+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜一戈竹火 (YMIHF), composition ⿱止⿵戌小 or ⿱止⿵戊𡭕)
References
- 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
For pronunciation and definitions of 歳 – see 歲 (“Jupiter; year; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 歲). |
Japanese
Kanji
歳
(common “Jōyō” kanji)
- year
Readings
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”). 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
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| 歲 (kyūjitai)
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| For pronunciation and definitions of 歳 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 歳, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Etymology 2
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歲 (kyūjitai)
才
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From Middle Chinese 歳. First attested in Japanese in the early 800s.
Pronunciation
Suffix
歳 or 歳 • (-sai)
- -year-old
- 十四歳
- jūyon sai
- fourteen years old
References