Words
Words with 年
Kanji 年, meaning year, appears in 851 Japanese vocabulary entries.
三二年テーゼ
さんじゅうにねんテーゼ
1932 Theses (Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems)
式年
しきねん
year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th and 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)
式年祭
しきねんさい
imperial memorial ceremony (held on the anniversary of the emperor's or empress's death, on fixed years)
式年遷宮
しきねんせんぐう
construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time
式年遷宮祭
しきねんせんぐうさい
fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
十五年戦争
じゅうごねんせんそう
Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)
熟年離婚
じゅくねんりこん
divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (often brought on by retirement of the husband)