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JLPT N5 · Telling time

一年

いちねん

one year

Stroke order of 一年

2 characters, 7 strokes in total. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

一 · 1 strokes年 · 6 strokes

Memory trick

年 shows grain bending under the sun, a harvest cycle, with 一 making one year.

Parts: 一 one + 年 year

The characters in 一年

  • 一 いち — one (1 strokes)
  • 年 とし — year (6 strokes)

Example sentence

日本に一年います。

にほんにいちねんいます。

I will be in Japan for one year.

Words with 一

Words with 年

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