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今日の漢字
Secondary schoolJLPT N3

year-end, age, occasion, opportunity

13 strokes · frequency rank #269

On
サイ、セイ
Kun
とし、とせ、よわい

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Common words

  1. さいしゅつannual expenditure (of a state, organization, etc.)1
  2. さいにゅうannual revenue (government); annual income (government); budget receipts2
    • Revenues are growing, but not as fast as costs.

    • The administration cannot but look for alternative sources of revenue.

    • A budget deficit will occur because of a revenue shortfall.

  3. さい... years old; age (of) ...3
    • "I sailed around the Mediterranean in a schooner when I was seventeen," she recited slowly and carefully.

    • He is eight.

    • She is eight.

  4. ばんざいbanzai; hurray; hurrah; hooray4
    • Long live the Queen!

    • We cried banzai at the news that he won the gold medal.

    • God save the Queen.

  5. せいぼyear-end gift5
  6. さいげつtime; years6
    • Years of resistance to misfortune ended when the settlers' village was overcome by the savages and their hopes and lives came to the bitter end.

    • Time and tide wait for no man.

    • Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

  7. さいまつyear end7
  8. おせいぼyear-end gift8
    • The gift-giving custom dies hard.

    • Sending year-end gifts is one of the customs peculiar to Japan.

  9. はたち20 years old9
    • She said she was twenty years old, which was not true.

    • She is on the wrong side of twenty.

    • In Japan people come of age when they are 20 years old.

  10. なんさいhow old; what age10
    • How old will you be next year?

    • How old are you?

    • How old is he, then?

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