Illustration: At a Japanese family home during the New Year holidays, relatives arrive at the entrance carrying a wrapped visiting gift. A shimekazari hangs on the door, and a kagami mochi remains displayed inside.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

年ねん始し

nenshi

start of the year, New Year period

Example sentences

  1. 年末ねんまつから年始ねんしにかけて全列車ぜんれっしゃとも京阪けいはんホームページ上じょうや広報誌こうほうし「K-press」で公表こうひょうされている。

    During the year-end and New Year season, this timetable is announced on the Keihan Electric Railway' website and in its public-relations magazine, 'K-press.'

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 祈祷きとうや占うらないは現在げんざいの神社神道じんじゃしんとうでも受うけ継つがれ、古来こらいそのままに、亀甲占きっこううらないを年始ねんしに行おこなう神社じんじゃもある。

    Traditions concerning prayer and divination have been passed down to the modern-day Shrine Shinto, and there are still some shrines where tortoise-shell divination is still practiced at the new year, just as it was in ancient times.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. また、中央競馬開催日ちゅうおうけいばかいさいびには、山崎駅前やまざきえきまえから京都競馬場きょうとけいばじょうへの臨時りんじバスが、年始ねんしには八幡市駅やわたしえきまでの臨時りんじバスが運行うんこうされる。

    From Yamazaki Station, special buses for Kyoto Race Course are operated on the days of horse racing, and special buses for Yawatashi Station are operated during the New Year holidays.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 年始

  • 年year; counter for yearsOnネンKunとし
  • 始commence; beginOnシKunはじめる・はじまる

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