Reading
연 (yeon) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 연 (yeon)
year; new-years; person's age
해 년hae nyeon
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 해 (hae) is the Korean for year, and 년 (nyeon) is the reading. Say 해 년 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- ⼲ 51
- Beyond radical
- 3
- Mandarin
- nián
- Japanese on
- nen
- Japanese kun
- toshi
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 년, but South Korean spelling writes 연 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
연
Elsewhere in the word
년
光年 광년 gwangnyeon近年 근년 geunnyeon今年 금년 geumnyeon
Vocabulary
Words that use 年
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
light year
Character by character light + year
Radical ⼲ · 51
Built on the same root.
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.