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今年

ことし

this year

Mnemonic

Now and the harvest welded together and then read like neither of them. The same coat こと as 事 with a し on it, and this is the year you finally get to Italy: ことし.

Worth knowing

Irregular reading, ことし, never こんねん.

Built from

now
A lid drawn shut over a single stroke, this moment, closed off from the rest.
year
Originally 禾 grain over a person carrying it, one harvest, one year.

Words sharing these kanji

now today next time this time until now this time this morning after this, in the future tonight, this evening now (when it's too late), at this stage every year last year

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