歳
age; year-end; occasion; opportunity
13 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 269.
Readings
- サイ (on reading): 歳 (さい) ... years old; 何歳 (なんさい) how old
- とせ (kun reading): 千歳 (ちとせ) thousand years; 千歳飴 (ちとせあめ) red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals
- セイ (on reading): お歳暮 (おせいぼ) year-end gift; 歳暮 (せいぼ) year-end gift
- とし (kun reading): 歳徳神 (としとくじん) goddess of (lucky) directions
- よわい (kun reading)
- Read as a whole word: 二十歳 (はたち) 20 years old
Components
Kanji containing 歳
- 穢 dirty
Words using 歳
- 歳 (さい) ... years old
- 何歳 (なんさい) how old
- 歳入 (さいにゅう) annual revenue (government)
- 万歳 (ばんざい) banzai
- 歳月 (さいげつ) time
- 千歳 (ちとせ) thousand years
- 千歳飴 (ちとせあめ) red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals
- 千歳鳥 (ちとせどり) crane (bird)
- 二十歳 (はたとせ) twenty years
- 公立千歳科学技術大学 (こうりつちとせかがくぎじゅつだいがく) Chitose Institute of Science and Technology
- 二十歳 (はたち) 20 years old
- お歳暮 (おせいぼ) year-end gift
- 歳暮 (せいぼ) year-end gift
- 千秋万歳 (せんしゅうばんぜい) may you live a thousand years
- 歳徳神 (としとくじん) goddess of (lucky) directions
- 直歳 (しっすい) one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of maintenance and groundskeeping)
81 words in all.