年
ネン, とし, ね

year, counter for years

JLPT5 G1 S6 F6

The relevant bronzeware inscription form is 禾 grain/rice + 千# (advance through luxuriant vegetation) → advance through crops in harvesting → *year*; *age* (← harvest as the end of a long agricultural cycle; compare 歳).

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