来年

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See also: 來年

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 来年 – see 來年 (“the coming year; next year”). (This term is the simplified form of 來年).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
来	年
らい Grade: 2	ねん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
來年 (kyūjitai)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) らいねん [ràínéń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɾa̠inẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

来(らい)年(ねん) • (rainen)

next year, coming year
来年(らいねん)は１７歳(じゅうななさい)になる。
Rainen wa jūnana sai ni naru.
I'll be seventeen next year.

Derived terms

再来年(さらいねん) (sarainen), sarainen): year after next
来年(らいねん)の事(こと)を言(い)うと鬼(おに)が笑(わら)う (rainen no koto o iu to oni ga warau): talk about next year and the devil will laugh
来年度(らいねんど) (rainendo): next year, next fiscal year

Related terms

時 (“Time”)
	~	−3	−2	−1	0	+1	+2	Continual
Day	日	一昨昨日	一昨日	昨日	今日	明日	明後日	毎日
Morning	朝	—	一昨朝	昨朝	今朝	明朝	—	毎朝
Night	晩	—	一昨晩	昨晩	今晩	明晩	—	毎晩
Week	週	—	先々週	先週	今週	来週	再来週	毎週
Month	月	—	先々月	先月	今月	来月	再来月	毎月
Year	年	一昨昨年	一昨年	去年	今年	来年	再来年	毎年

Etymology 2

Noun

来年(でねん) • (denen)

(dialectal, Kagoshima) next year, coming year

References

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[NHK-1] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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