年始

Japanese

Kanji in this term
年 始
ねん
Grade: 1 		し
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

年(ねん)始(し) • (nenshi) ←ねんし (nensi)?

  1. beginning of a new year
  2. New Year's greeting, visit
    • 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 35, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下 先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:
      すると女(おんな)の年始(ねんし)は大抵十五日過(たいていじゅうごにちすぎ)だのに、なぜそんなに早(はや)く出掛(でか)けたのだろうと質問(しつもん)するのです。
      Suru to onna no nenshi wa taitei jūgonichi sugi da no ni, naze sonna ni hayaku dekaketa no darō to shitsumon suru no desu.
      Then he questioned why they had left so early, since women usually made their New Year's visits after the fifteenth.

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References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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