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来年

らいねん

next year

Mnemonic

The crop that has not come in yet, sat on top of a year. The same らい as 以来, counting forwards: nothing booked and nothing paid for, but next year, definitely, the two of you: らいねん.

Built from

come
Originally a wheat plant. The crop that comes to you at harvest.
year
Originally 禾 grain over a person carrying it, one harvest, one year.

Words sharing these kanji

to come to be able to do, to be good at next month to come around, to come along future originally, essentially to bring over, to bring along occurrence, incident since one's future, in the future every year this year

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