忘年会

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
忘	年	会
ぼう Grade: 6	ねん Grade: 1	かい Grade: 2
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Alternative spelling
忘年會 (kyūjitai)

忘年会 on Japanese Wikipedia

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Etymology

忘年 (bōnen, “forget the bad things of last year”) +‎ 会 (kai, “gathering”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ぼーねんかい (Nakadaka – )
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Noun

忘(ぼう)年(ねん)会(かい) • (bōnenkai) ^{←ばうねんくわい (baunenkwai)^?}

a year-end party where people get drunk to "forget" about the bad things of last year
- Hikaru Nakamura, “その90(きゅうじゅう)　松(まつ)田(だ)ハイツの秘(ひ)密(みつ) [Chapter 90: Mitsuda Heights’s Secret]”, in [聖](セイント)☆おにいさん [Saint☆Young Men], volume 12 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha:
  
  忘(ぼう)年(ねん)会(かい)——…その年(とし)の苦(く)労(ろう)を分(わ)かちあった者(もの)たちと……苦(く)労(ろう)を忘(わす)れ来(らい)年(ねん)への英(えい)気(き)を養(やしな)う会(かい)である
  Bōnenkai——… Sono toshi no kurō o wakachiatta monotachi to…… Kurō o wasure rainen e no eiki o yashinau kai de aru
  The forgetting-last-year party… where those who have hardships from last year… gather to forget about them, and to look forward to the next year.

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