Chinese

Japanese

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) らいねん [ràínéń] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾ̠a̠ĩnẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

来年 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 來年, hiragana らいねん, romaji rainen)

1. 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

• 去年 (きょねん) ‎(kyonen): last year
• 昨年 (さくねん) ‎(sakunen): last year
• 今年 (ことし) ‎(kotoshi): this year
• 本年 (ほんねん) ‎(honnen): this year

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3