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歳

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 295 / 2,608

Years Old

On’yomi
さい
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
止 Stop (Kangxi 77)
Strokes
13

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 存 (Exist), less common than 常 (Normal).

His Stop-foot slams the crossing paint, the grit Slides it out from under him, and the Few teeth that land in the white line are the only way the medics can tell how many Years Old he was.

In words

歳 さい #NAME?N1
二十歳 はたち 20 years old,20th yearN5
万歳 ばんざい hurrah, cheersN2

歳 is rank 295 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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